There comes a time in every star's life when he's been around long enough to start playing grandad roles. Fair play to Kevin Costner then, who was Clark Kent's pa in Man Of Steel and has now moved up a generation for the rather smaller scale Black Or White. The film's director is Costner's Upside Of Anger collaborator Mike Binder.
Binder also wrote the screenplay, which involves Costner in a racially-charged custody battle. Costner's character lost his daughter in labour, and since the subsequent death of his wife he has been bringing up his mixed-race granddaughter Eloise (Jillian Estell) alone. When the child's paternal grandmother (Octavia Spencer) shows up to make her own claim, tensions flare over the question of where the child should be raised, and who she should be raised with.
Costner has been juggling action and drama lately, with 3 Days To Kill, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and the upcoming Criminal jostling for position with the lower-octane Draft Day and McFarland, USA. This one, obviously, belongs in the latter camp.
Costner is also a producer of Black Or White via his Treehouse banner. Shooting took place last year in New Orleans, and the film gets its wide release in the US in January (with limited screenings also starting today). We don't have a date in the UK yet.