Raising Izzie

Raising Izzie

87 mins | Family, TV Movie | Aug. 6, 2013

Gertie and Izzie are two young girls on their own. Abandoned by their father and orphaned by their mother, they are doing the best they can to stay in school, stay undetected and stay together. With assistance from their mother before her passing, the girls are financially prepared to sustain themselves for some time. Gertie, 14, takes seriously, her charge to raise her younger sister Izzie, 10, alone. Greg and Tonya are a couple whose love for one another radiates and for some time now, they have attempted to build a family and have failed. Tonya longs to share the love and nurturing she has been channeling through her job as a teacher, into children of her own. Is it God’s will that they don’t have children?

Raising Izzie

87 mins | Family, TV Movie | Aug. 6, 2013

Raising Izzie
Gertie and Izzie are two young girls on their own. Abandoned by their father and orphaned by their mother, they are doing the best they can to stay in school, stay undetected and stay together. With assistance from their mother before her passing, the girls are financially prepared to sustain themselves for some time. Gertie, 14, takes seriously, her charge to raise her younger sister Izzie, 10, alone. Greg and Tonya are a couple whose love for one another radiates and for some time now, they have attempted to build a family and have failed. Tonya longs to share the love and nurturing she has been channeling through her job as a teacher, into children of her own. Is it God’s will that they don’t have children?
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers
Original title Raising Izzie
Directors Roger M. Bobb
Writers David Martyn Conley

Cast

Rockmond Dunbar

as Greg

Vanessa Williams

as Tonya

Victoria Staley

as Gertie

Kyla Kenedy

as Izzie

Deetta West

as Social Worker

Demetria McKinney

as Singer

Rodney Perry

as Guard

Cylla Senii

as Student

Han Soto

as Doctor

Wanda Smith

as Mrs. Smith