When a hard-working single mother, Sara Diaz, has her children taken from her after she is suspected of injuring her son, Ally Fisher, a recent law school graduate, is assigned to represent her case before Judge Martha Schulman, a veteran of the Family Court System.
Custody is a 2016 American courtroom drama film directed and written by James Lapine. The film stars Viola Davis as a judge who presides over the custody case of a Latina woman named Sara (Catalina Sandino Moreno) whose children are taken away after an episode of domestic violence. Hayden Panettiere plays the lawyer given Sara’s case, with Ellen Burstyn, Selenis Leyva, Olga Merediz, Dan Fogler, Raúl Esparza, and Tony Shalhoub in other roles.
The lives of three women are unexpectedly changed when they cross paths at a New York Family Court.
Pulitzer Prize winner James Lapine writes and directs this courtroom drama about a mother’s struggle against the child-welfare system. Catalina Sandino Moreno (“Maria Full of Grace”) plays Sara Diaz, a mother fighting for custody of her children after a rather innocuous accident involving her young son prompts a child-welfare inquiry. Adding to the complexity of the situation, Judge Schulman (Academy Award®-winner Viola Davis) is under pressure to handle the case with the utmost caution, and Diaz’s defender, Ally Fisher (Hayden Panettiere), is a privileged and woefully unprepared recent graduate. The stories of these three women collide as the court determines whether or not Diaz is fit to care for her children.
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