Directed by:
Charles Stone IIIScreenplay:
Pat GilfillanCinematography:
Wyatt GarfieldCast:
Viola Davis, Jennifer Lopez, Shea Whigham, Yolonda Ross, Aml Ameen, Andre Royo, Chris Chalk, Marisela Zumbado, Ian Casselberry, Will Brittain, Rey Hernandez (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
When teenage Stephon is killed in a drive-by shooting, his mother, Lila, slips into a paralyzing grief. She joins a support group for women who have lost children to crime and meets Eve, a woman whose little girl was killed the same night as Stephon. Lila and Eve form a friendship, and Lila begins to crawl out of her depression. She develops a burning desire to find justice for her son, and she presses the authorities for answers, but they are slow-moving and ineffective. It's Eve who has the idea first join together, find the drug dealers who shot Stephon dead, and bring them to justice themselves. (Sundance Film Festival)
(more)Reviews (1)
I have such conflicted feelings about this film. The fact that the mother transforms into a killer and wants to find out who killed her son appealed to me because there were good performances by Viola Davis and also J.Lo. But then it all went sideways with that strange revelation that it needlessly hinged on. This just didn't work for me script-wise.
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