Custody (1988)
- Directed by
- Ian Munro
- Genre
- drama, tv movie
- Country
- Australia
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A film about a child custody case that unfolds without a script. Actors and real family court staff improvise the story based on true events. The outcome is unknown to all participants until the judge delivers the verdict.
tenserawgroundedimprovisedgrittynaturalisticunscriptedemotionally taxing
What happens
Custody is a 1988 Australian TV docudrama about a child custody battle. It was filmed over three weeks in a semi-improvisational style. Custody was filmed with a mixture of actors and real staff from the family law system. The story was built from real cases. There was no script and actors workshopped their characters beforehand and role played their parts. None of the participants was aware of the result until the Judge gave his verdict. Richard Coleman of The Sydney Morning Herald called it "exceptionally good television". Kathe Boehringer in Filmnews writes "The result is a remarkable hybrid, but whatever it is – a fiction film with a documentary feel? faction? a docu-drama? — you won't be able to stop watching." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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