Based on remarkable work in a small Texan community to adopt children considered ‘too difficult’ to foster, the film gets lost in saccharine cliche

After its controversial US box office hit Sound of Freedom, producer Angel Studios has put its weight behind another title that crudely mines child misery. Directed by Joshua Weigel, the film purports to tackle America’s broken foster care system through the true story of Donna Martin and her husband Bishop Wc Martin, played here by Nika King and Demetrius Grosse. Living in Possum Trot, Texas, the Christian couple took in youngsters deemed too “difficult” to place within the foster system. More extraordinarily, they also galvanised 22 families in their congregation to follow their steps.

In the end, a total of 77 displaced children were adopted within the community. On screen, however, this fascinating story is superficially told through saccharine cliches. Though forceful in its pro-adoption stance, the...