Black or White and Elliot Anderson Costner

Elliot Anderson Costner: Black or White may be the title, but there are plenty of grey areas tackled in this good ol fashioned family dramedy from standup comic turned filmmaker Mike Binder Reign Over Me, The Upside of Anger , according to The Chronicle Herald. A somewhat clumsy opening scene introduces us to California attorney Elliot Anderson Costner , whose wife has just died in a car accident, leaving the man with little consolation outside a home bar fully stocked with Scotch. But he does have one remaining hope in life: his mixed-race 7-year-old granddaughter, Eloise newcomer Jillian Estell , who been living with him ever since the girl mother died at childbirth and her drug addicted father, Reggie Andre Holland , landed in jail and Pitting a binge-drinking Kevin Costner against a butt-whopping Octavia Spencer in a battle for custody over their beloved granddaughter, this well-performed and occasionally amusing affair has a distinctively 90s feel to it, laying on the sauce rather thick at times, although it still creates a believable story raising questions about parenthood and racial prejudice in modern-day Los Angeles. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.