The Hollywood Reporter by Angie Han
The documentary goes out of its way to consider the situation from all angles, and what might look from the outside like a simple story spills over with complicated emotions once it’s been cracked open.
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United States · 2021
1h 37m
Director Amanda Lipitz
Starring
Genre Documentary
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The film follows three adopted American teenage girls, Chloe, Sadie, and Lily, who discover they are blood-related cousins through 23andMe. After connecting virtually, the three girls meet up to travel to China, where they were adopted, to seek answers regarding their identity and family history.
The Hollywood Reporter by Angie Han
The documentary goes out of its way to consider the situation from all angles, and what might look from the outside like a simple story spills over with complicated emotions once it’s been cracked open.
Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh
For an adoptee, the notion of “family” is so much more complicated and layered than it might be for someone else, but what Found powerfully argues is that within these many layers, there is an abundance of a unique kind of love, and understanding, to be found. You just have to look for it.
The New York Times by Lisa Kennedy
While the young women harbor overlapping questions, Found makes it clear they also have yearnings unique to them.
It’s a lot for everyone to process and I was was drawn in by the conflicting feelings colliding at all once: Mutual grief and joy, but also confusion.
TheWrap by Ronda Racha Penrice
Found is told with such genuine love that it’s frequently hard to hold back tears. Once again Lipitz has focused her lens on the magic of girls and found real treasure.