PARK CITY, Utah (AP) – Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez are grief-stricken mothers in “Lila and Eve,” which premiered Friday night at the Sundance Film Festival.
Lila Wolcott (Davis) is broken when her 18-year-old son is gunned down in the street – an innocent victim in the wrong place at the wrong time. At a support group for parents of murdered children, she finds a kindred spirit in Eve (Lopez), who’s more interested in getting justice than talking through her problems.
While the local police established a task force to find the killer of a blond-haired cheerleader, Lila’s son is among dozens of young black men caught in the drug-trade crossfire.
“They don’t even see us,” Eve says.
She and Lila start their own investigation, which gradually becomes more like a revenge mission. As the two women delve deeper into their search for the boy’s killer, Lila begins to lose herself in increasingly risky behavior.