Black or White (2014)


A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

Black or White (2014)

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Released Year: 2014
Runtime: 121 minutes
Genre: Drama
Directors: Mike Binder
Writers: Mike Binder

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A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

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Reviews


75
Movie Nation - Roger Moore
“Selma” wasn’t the only film about race to get short shrift from Oscar voters this past year. Black or White is a frank, touching and very well-acted melodrama about child custody and cultural perceptions of “blackness” and “the race card,” and could have earned Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner fresh Oscar nominations.
75
Observer - Rex Reed
Good acting and plenty to think about, but a better director than Mike Binder would have made a better film.
70
The Hollywood Reporter - Jordan Mintzer
Black and White never panders too easily to sentiments, creating characters who are riddled with flaws but likeable all the same.
70
Los Angeles Times - Gary Goldstein
The filmmaker and his on-screen proxies boldly go places our national discourse desperately needs to go, yet rarely does.
50
Variety - Scott Foundas
The good news is that Kevin Costner does some of the finest, most deeply felt work of his career as a widower lawyer fighting for custody of his biracial granddaughter in Mike Binder’s Black and White. The bad news is that this well-intentioned family drama never quite shakes free from its didactic, movie-of-the-week dramaturgy and a hand-holding approach to race-relations.

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