What Color Is Love?

– A white woman has an affair with a married African-American basketball star and challenges him for c..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
5.60 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 25 Minutes
Release Year:
2009
Original Name:
Playing for Keeps
What Color Is Love? (2009) - Also known as Playing for Keeps

A white woman has an affair with a married African-American basketball star and challenges him for custody of their mixed-race son. Based on a true story.

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Release Date:

18 Jan 2009

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
TV-14 – For Age 14 and Above

This program contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age. Programs rated TV-14 contains material that parents or adult guardians may find unsuitable for children under the age of 14. The FCC warns that "Parents are cautioned to exercise some care in monitoring this program and are cautioned against letting children under the age of 14 watch unattended." Programs with this rating contain crude humor, drug/alcohol use, inappropriate language, strong violence (may include some amounts of blood and gore), and moderate suggestive themes or dialogue.

Director:

Gary Harvey

Writer:

Shelley Eriksen (story), Keith Behrman (story), Shelley Eriksen (teleplay)

Main Actors:

Jennifer Finnigan, Roger Cross, Doug Savant, Brian Markinson

Plot:

In Vancouver, black professional basketball star Tyler 'Ty' Rivers has an adulterous affair with white "party animal" Nicole Alpern. When she announces the pill failed, he questions his paternity and dumps her. A few months after Noah's birth Ty demands his rights as a father, supported by his black wife, Beverly, with whom he raises two daughters. Only her remarried father stands by Nicole after her lawyer, Henry Wong, dumps her as an impossibly unpredictable, incorrigible client. No one offers to step in, except brilliant young attorney, Peter Marcheson, who wants the high-profile exposure and agrees to take the case pro bono. Marcheson wins the case, but Ty's lawyer, Daniel Gibson, takes it to the British Columbia court of Appeal, where he wins based on a racial prejudice experience argumentation. Now only the Supreme Court of Canada could set a precedent and reverse the decision.

Awards:

4 nominations.

Production:

Lifetime Movie Network

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
5.5/10