ABSTRACT
In 2009, CTV, a major Canadian broadcaster, aired the original movie Playing for Keeps , an adapted for television version of a real-life custody battle with which Canadian viewers were quite familiar. Promotional material characterized the film, in part, as “. . . a gripping dramatization of a mother’s fight with her son’s pro-athlete father for sole custody of their son” and a movie that “confront[ed] issues of class, fame, and above all, race . . .” (Force Four Entertainment, 2009). Theodore “Blue” Edwards and Kimberly Van de Perre were the real-life figures that triggered the story.
