Black or White
Still reeling from his wife's death, Elliot Anderson struggles to maintain custody of his biracial granddaughter when her grandmother begins pushing to have the girl sent back to her father -- a crack addict Elliot blames for his daughter's demise.
Movie #1091 "Black or White" is a very uneven film ---- lots of the scenes that are supposed to be funny, aren't, and lots of the dramatic ones fall flat or come across melodramatic (esp. the big fight scene at the end when Costner has to be pulled out of his pool. There are script problems, for sure, and the actors can't seem to rise above them. Octavia Spencer and Costner seem very uncomfortable in their parts, like they are doing this film for the money, and you can tell. There were parts I did like, though. I esp. like the topic and the theme --- that it takes a village to raise a child. The idea of a white grandpa raising his biracial granddaughter and then being in conflict with her black grandma seems to me a believable conflict in this day and age. It is a real problem that needs attention ---- is love and good intentions enough to raise a child well, esp. when you are drinking every day like this man. In that way, the movie is interesting, but I'm sure I fell asleep somewhere in the middle of it, and when I awakened, I couldn't tell I missed anything. So I don't recommend it. But the black tutor is a stitch!
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