i have just finish see this movie for the first time on tv . all the way through i simply could not believe that time and again such decision be make purely on the basis of the judge homophobic bias . i keep wait for someone to stand up and declare the obvious that it be wrong to deprive a loving and care mother of her child simply because some bigot do not approve of who she love . what amaze me most of all be that at the very start of the movie we be tell that grandparent have no legal entitlement to visitation in virginia . so it be appal to me that even though there be no basis in law for grant custody to jody ann appal mother and simply because of a judge personal bias custody be grant . it make a mockery of the law and of the u legal system . i come on here hop to find that in the eight year since the movie be make commonsense and justice have prevail and that jody ann have finally get to bring up her son in a loving and caring and nuturing home . but sadly it seem that bigot still rule in the good il u of a. it also astonish me that no one think to ask why the grandmother be insist on the child call her amamma . this surely confuse the child and be a clear indication that the grandmother motif aren not in the child best interest but her own . clearly and she want the child for herself from the start and her daughter new lifestyle be just an excuse . i be enrage by jody ann brother and best friend . both of whom betray her and lie on the stand and simply because they be angry that she have choose to love another woman . they should be ashamed of themselves . all in all and a sad and depressing indictment of america and of it intolerance for those who do not fit the amom apple pie image and the grip the rave rightwing lobby have on this country . i wish jody ann all the best . i be sure that when her son be grow and be able to understand the manipulation of his grandmother and the injustice do to his mother he will choose to be with her again .