For the Love of a Child (2006) watch online HD

I have been anticipating watching this movie for a month and it was beyond my expectations of a lifetime movie. The acting was superior (Gilpin, Polo and the child actors). This movie follows two women (Gilpin and Polo) on their journey to help children around the world. Through their journey of orphans and abused children they stumble across Jacob, an severely abused child,whose story makes the movie touching and meaningful. The movie can get a little confusing at times because they do switch from one decade to another, as long as you're paying attention you'll understand what is going on. The movie was a great awakening of what some children are living through and that people can really change the world for others.

Based on the book written by Sara O'Meara and Yvonne Fedderson ('Silence Broken'), this TV movie chronicles how both Sara and Yvonne went all the way to help kids who had been neglected.

The TV movie began with a young boy Jacob who tried to hide away from his abusive father as he tried to call the help centre. Though Jacob's father eventually found out where his son was, the help centre eventually managed to trace where the call was from. It was later known that the centre was managed by both Sara and Yvonne.

After Jacob was being brought to the centre, Sara and Yvonne reminisced about the time when they performed back in Tokyo and the event which changed their life. The two ladies knew after their encounter with the homeless kids on the streets of Tokyo that helping neglected kids was something they can do.

The movie changes between the current times and the time when Sara and Yvonne trying very hard to push their cause across to the relevant authorities in the country to some of the cases in the movie like especially two children by the name of Laura and Michael other than Jacob.

Sometimes it's just scary to hear and watch of cases of child abuse. But then it's just true that there are always such cases out there. The TV movie can really pull the heartstrings.

It touches you... Shows you the real world... Shows you that there is a lot of crap going on around the globe, where poor, helpless, innocent, orphans and children are being tortured, molested and abused. And then it shows that there are those amongst us who would spend their entire life fixing this! This movie has surely stirred me... and I will definitely watch it again. The acting is great, I would want to know what became of the lady in Japan though. The scene that brought a tear in my eye was when Michael's back was shown, and it read "Bad Boy" (which was made out of scars). And then again, when Jacob's shirt was removed, and we could see the Iron marks...

This is the first movie i've seen that made me think how selfish i was, enjoying my life while so many children out there get abused twenty four seven. This story revolves mainly around two stories. How two ladies helped save child abuse victims and orphans and of a boy named Jacob and how he's rescued from his torturing parents and how he learns to get back on with his life. I cried a lot while watching this movie because the stories portrayed in it are true. Don't get me wrong about the crying, it's a really good movie that i believe every teenager like me should watch because it helps you to appreciate the parents you've got. I'm just fifteen years old and boy am I SOOO GLAD, that i've got the parents i have. How could a woman use cigar butts to burn in the words "bad boy" into her own son's back? How could a man bury his own son alive with just a straw to breathe through? When a parent goes out to work, do they know what the other spouse is doing with their child back home? For The Love Of A Child also shows the after-effects a child goes through after child abuse. Endless nightmares, loss of speech, inability to socialize, growing hate for the rest of the world. How could this be happening out there in the world. Can we be so clueless, as to not notice this. It could be your own neighbor, relative or friend who's doing all this. Could we care less about other children? It shows how a child care village helped rebuild lives of child abuse victims. This movie was brilliant, the children were terrific actors. Absoluetly terrific. A shot of reality like this movie down your throat can't have anything but a good effect.

OK i have a 10-month-old daughter and while i was watching this movie, i kept thinking to myself, "I am never gonna let my baby's father or anybody abuse my little girl sexually or beat up on her like that one mother let her husband do to her baby boy Jacob... there was no need to beat on him like that... and the little boy Mikey who had the words BAD BOY all on his back... and the little girl Lauren who's stepfather would molest her and then cut her face with a razor... and then the mother is all like, "after johnny finishes his sentence, he's gonna come home and live with us it's his home too..." that's crazy... it was a sad movie and then after Nixzmary Brown, the 7-year-old who was beaten to death in Bed-Stuy and found in the closet of her apartment... what is wrong with this world??????? the best thing about this movie is that all the kids were all excellent actors and actresses and the other best part of it is that it's the true story and the people who fight for the kids do the right things... it's the parents that are clueless

I have rarely seen ANYTHING that moved me as much as "For the Love of a Child." Based on the true story of Childhelp International and the two women who founded it, this film brought tears to my eyes (and I rarely cry at movies -- show me a "tear-jerker" with an overannuated actress dying of a fatal disease to the accompaniment of treacly string music and my eyes remain dry every time). This film works on every level: a sensitive script by Duane Poole that showcased both the depths of depravity and the heights of nobility that we humans are capable of; quiet, understated direction by Douglas Barr, who trusted the story to tell itself without gimmicks or visual trickery; and acting by a remarkable ensemble cast who vividly brought these people to life. David McNally's performance as the abusive stepdad is one of the most intense portraits of controlled evil I've seen on screen, but the real "star" of this movie is Matthew Knight, the remarkable child actor who played Jacob and brought all his moods and emotions to vivid life. One wonders how Douglas Barr got this performance out of him, and in particular just how much the director told him about abused children generally and the character specifically -- it's a marvelous acting job but I can't help but wonder whether the boy might be scarred just from having to act these scenes. The film is a tribute to the human spirit that a group such as Childhelp can exist -- even though it's also an all too accurate portrayal of the dark side of our natures that requires a group like Childhelp to exist in the first place. The editing between the current story and the flashbacks in the first hour occasionally gets confusing, but that's the only negative thing I'd have to say about this great film.

I saw this movie and thought that it was very good, but really sad,I also thought that the kids who acted in the movie were really good, and that that was a nice thing that those ladies did for the abused kids and the orphans. I also think that what the parents did to their kids was awful like the mom who burned her and the father who hit his son and yelled at him and said mean things to him. I wouldn't ever do that to my kids or let my husband or any other person do that them because that is awful and those parents in the movie were mean to them when they did that. I would watch that movie again because it is good and really informational.

Nothing really to get excited about in this movie. The movie retells the true story of Childhelp International and the two women who founded it. Jumping from the past to the present we are shown how the foundation came to be and how it flourished since then.

The origins aren't really too heartwarming and you can't help to think that it lacked real heart to it. Maybe a different form of presenting the motivations of the women who created Chlidhelp International would be in order.

The main segment of the film however can at times pack a wallop. It shows abused children, that are taken in by Childhelp, with various horror stories behind all of them. The organisation gives them a chance to find peace and in the future maybe hope for a better living. It's shocking in as much as all of it seems to be based on real life stories. The storytelling however is lacking and weak with the acting below par.

Nothing really to get excited about, but it is a decent watch and definitely not a waste of time.