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Custody
MEANRANK
69/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 46, highest is Google on 84. Critics average 83, everyone else 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A French couple is going through a bitter divorce. A judge grants joint custody to the father, despite the mother's and their young son's vehement objections and claims of the father's abusive nature. The ruling forces the terrified boy to spend time alone with a man he fears, creating an almost unbearable tension as the mother fights to protect her child.
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- Director
- James Lapine
- Writer
- James Lapine
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 104 min
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