Black Or White
In a controversial case involving one of the grandparents who is taking care of his beloved granddaughter. Her grandmother is trying to get her mother's custody with the help of her brother. They are both in conflict to get that girl, and both cause the child to be torn between two families they love deeply. But with the best intentions in the heart, both families struggle for what they feel is right and try to deal more rationally to find an optimal solution. Both families may face their real feelings about race, forgiveness and understanding for the comfort of their child.
28 December 1979, Bessemer, Alabama, USA
8 November 1983, Newark, New Jersey, USA
29 December 1969, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
13 November 1958, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
25 March 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
March 15, 2017
This very shallow, poorly conceived and developed film, which is based on a true story, is a well-meaning misfire.
March 07, 2016
The title suggests there are no easy answers. So why does everything feel so tidy?
January 30, 2015
Despite the best of intentions, a career-best performance from Kevin Costner, and outstanding work by Octavia Spencer and child actor Jillian Estell, "Black or White" succumbs to some of the same stereotypes it tries to dispel.
December 31, 2015
Binder's broadness of reach becomes a kind of tonal confusion - a racial melodrama, but with cute laugh cues.
January 30, 2015
Binder, who once made lowbrow comedies but now specializes in middlebrow dramedies, is in several leagues over his head with this story ...
January 31, 2015
Oh, the bathos! The loony wrongheadedness of the screenplay!
January 30, 2015
"Black or White" stumbles even as it tries to move forward.
January 30, 2015
It may be helpful - or vexing - to think of "Black or White" as the great grandchild of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"
June 13, 2016
Costner holds it all together. While he's always been supremely watchable, as his looks succumb to middle-age spread-his acting chops have escalated.
December 18, 2015
Only Costner's salty, unselfconscious turn as a cranky codger makes the film almost bearable.
January 31, 2015
Black or White isn't so much an offensive movie as it is a pointless one.
February 24, 2016
As far as legal procedurals and family dramas go, Black or White is a minor success.
