Touching on current hot-button issues but set in a time when they were far less common currency, Travis Fine’s film pairs drag queen Alan Cumming and prosecutor Garret Dillahunt as the would-be foster parents to a boy with Down Syndrome (Isaac Leyva). Cumming’s dreadful attempt at a Queens drawl grates (especially for viewers of The Good Wife, who know that he can nail standard American), but it’s a rare treat to see him act without tongue in cheek, wholly committing himself to the role of a fey queen who suddenly finds something worth taking seriously.
The movie’s broad take on the state of same-sex custody battles circa 1979 leans more heavily on evolving prejudices than the nature of the law, but it still evokes strong reactions with regard to how much — and how little — society has since changed.
