Custody

Status:
Completed (2016)
Directed by:
James Lapine
Cast:
Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Ellen Burstyn, Catalina Sandino Moreno
Format:
Feature Film
Genre:
Drama
Logline:
The lives of three women are unexpectedly changed when they cross paths at a New York Family Court.

Still reeling from the aftershock of the recent death of a young girl whom the system failed, Martha Schulman, a beleaguered and no-nonsense New York family court judge is presented with a new case, involving a working-class single mother, Sara Diaz, fighting to regain full custody of her two young children following a physical altercation with her son.