The intensely personal documentary "Brown Bread" etches the compelling experience of an adoptive family of six children: two Caucasian birth children and four adoptees, two African-American and two Latino. The viewer, drawn cinematically into this unique and rare circle, inevitably reflects on a wide spectrum of familial issues through the retrospective observations of each parent and all six siblings. Drawn into this film mostly for its sociological interest, I viewed it initially from a passive vantage point. As the evolution of the Gross Family unfolded before me, I realized that "Brown Bread" was also the story of my own family. I, too, have an adopted sister eighteen months younger than I as well as a younger sister and a pair of younger brothers. Thus, before me in Sarah Gross' superb tracing of decades, I realized that I was immersed in my own home life with new consciousness for the first time. "Brown Bread" is Every-Family as well as uniquely the family of Peter and Margot Campbell Gross. No thoughtful parent, reflective adult child or culturally engaged viewer can fail to find in this profound cinematic experience a new vision of his or her own life.