In the Best Interest of the Children

In the Best Interest of the Children is a fact-based TV film starring Sarah Jessica Parker who plays a woman struggling with manic-depression while raising her five children. This leads to the children eventually being taken from her and put in foster care. The film was partially shot in Marengo, Iowa, roughly 30 miles west of Iowa City. The film opens with Callie Cain (Parker) leading her kids in singing along to John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" as she moves back to her hometown of Estherville, Iowa with her 4 young daughters (plus another baby on the way) and boyfriend Ray (Hodges). Despite the initially optimistic mood and the efforts of Callie's brother John (Graham) and sister-in-law Wanda (Atkinson) to try and help...