“Custody” is the cliched wedding toast of movies. Actually, it’s the drunken cliched wedding toast of movies, in that it starts by defining the title — “the protective care or guardianship of someone or something,” in case you’re unfamiliar with the lofty legal term — before spiraling wildly off-topic, delving full-on into the lives of the wedding guests and often forgetting why these stories are relevant to the happy couple.
In other words, it’s a mess, and if you’re purely interested in Viola Davis’ involvement, I urge you to skip to the first and only paragraph below staring with “Viola Davis” (or the one ending with “our beloved Vi Vi”).
To continue the wedding analogy, the happy couple at the heart of “Custody” is Sara Diaz (Catalina Sandino Moreno) and her kids. A single mother working at a dry cleaner, Diaz is constantly worried about her kids getting into trouble,...
In other words, it’s a mess, and if you’re purely interested in Viola Davis’ involvement, I urge you to skip to the first and only paragraph below staring with “Viola Davis” (or the one ending with “our beloved Vi Vi”).
To continue the wedding analogy, the happy couple at the heart of “Custody” is Sara Diaz (Catalina Sandino Moreno) and her kids. A single mother working at a dry cleaner, Diaz is constantly worried about her kids getting into trouble,...
- 3/5/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Fresh off her Best Supporting Actress Oscar win for “Fences,” Viola Davis’ next project, “Custody,” is premiering this Saturday, March 4, on Lifetime. The network has now released the trailer for the drama, which is also executive produced by Davis. The film was among the projects announced by the network during the TCA tour presentation in January.
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Set in New York City, “Custody” follows Judge Martha Sherman (Davis), who leads the custody case of Sara Diaz (Catalina Sandina Moreno), a young mother who is about to lose her children. Hayden Panettiere plays the defense lawyer in the case. The main cast also includes Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn and Tony Shaloub.
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Set in New York City, “Custody” follows Judge Martha Sherman (Davis), who leads the custody case of Sara Diaz (Catalina Sandina Moreno), a young mother who is about to lose her children. Hayden Panettiere plays the defense lawyer in the case. The main cast also includes Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn and Tony Shaloub.
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The film was helmed...
- 3/3/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
Team Experience is at the Tribeca Film Festival. Here's Manuel on "Custody".
"I wanted to have the film center on female characters." That was James Lapine in a post-screening Q&A of his latest film, Custody, which premiered this past week. And boy has he delivered. Steering pretty far from familiar ground for him (he of Into the Woods and Six by Sondheim fame), Lapine has crafted a mosaic-like portrait of the labyrinthine bureaucracy that are the family court proceedings in New York City. Sara Diaz, a young single mother of two (Catalina Sandino Moreno, putting those wounded eyes to great use), finds herself embroiled in a custody battle when an accident leaves her son with a black eye that forces the school to call child services. Sara is assigned to a freshly minted lawyer, Ally Fisher (Hayden Panettiere, in her most mature role to date) who quickly realizes there's...
"I wanted to have the film center on female characters." That was James Lapine in a post-screening Q&A of his latest film, Custody, which premiered this past week. And boy has he delivered. Steering pretty far from familiar ground for him (he of Into the Woods and Six by Sondheim fame), Lapine has crafted a mosaic-like portrait of the labyrinthine bureaucracy that are the family court proceedings in New York City. Sara Diaz, a young single mother of two (Catalina Sandino Moreno, putting those wounded eyes to great use), finds herself embroiled in a custody battle when an accident leaves her son with a black eye that forces the school to call child services. Sara is assigned to a freshly minted lawyer, Ally Fisher (Hayden Panettiere, in her most mature role to date) who quickly realizes there's...
- 4/21/2016
- by Manuel Betancourt
- FilmExperience
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