Trailer To Lifetime’s Custody, Exec Produced & Starring Viola DavisPosted by Wilson Morales
February 28, 2017
Lifetime has released a trailer and new photos its upcoming legal drama film, ‘Custody,’ executive produced by Viola Davis and starring Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Raul Esparza, Dan Fogler, Ellen Burstyn, Nicholas L. Ashe, David Aaron Baker, Karen Pittman, Roger Robinson and Tony Shaloub.
The film will air on Saturday, March 4 at 8pm ET/PT on Lifetime.
Written and directed by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner James Lapine, the film had its world premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.
Sara Diaz (Catalina Sandino Moreno) is a working-class single mother whose two young kids are taken away when her son’s teacher calls child services, after noticing bruises on his arms and a cut above his eye. Hayden Panettiere plays Alexandra Fisher, a recent law-school graduate assigned to Sara’s case, while Viola Davis is family court judge Martha Schulman, whose anxieties outside the courtroom include a cheating husband (Tony Shalhoub) and a son (Nicholas L. Ashe) just off to college.
Lauren Versel, Katie Mustard, Lapine and Roy Furman serve as producers. Davis, Julius Tennon, Jeff Elliott, Chad Moore, Gregory P. Shockro, Daryl Roth and Sandy Robertson also executive produce.
