'Pictures of Hollis Woods"

"Pictures of Hollis Woods" is a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie that is a fictionalized version based on a true story.  It is a wonderful, heartwarming movie about Hollis Woods, a twelve year old girl, who was abandoned as a baby and has been moving from foster home to foster home.  She thinks she's blown her chance to be part of a "forever" family but her encounter with a retired art teacher, Josie, changes her perspective.  Edna, her social worker, has had experience in the past with Josie who has been a foster mother to young girls so places Hollis with her.  Hollis has a talent for drawing and she and Josie hit it off almost right away.  Unfortunately, Josie is developing dementia and Hollis may have to be moved again.  She tries to hide Josie's forgetfulness from others but it soon becomes too much to hide so that's when Hollis takes matters into her own hands with surprising results.  pazt