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Lila & Eve is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 31 july 2015 with Jennifer Lopez
Lila & Eve (2015)
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Add to a movie listLila & Eve is a 2015 American drama film directed by Charles Stone III and written by Patrick Gilfillan. The film stars Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez. It premiered on January 30, 2015 at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was released in North America on July 17, 2015 in a limited release and through video on demand by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
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Lila (Viola Davis), whose son was murdered, joins a support group where she meets Eve (Jennifer Lopez), whose daughter died. Lila has difficulty getting satisfaction from the police, so Eve tells her she should find the killers herself. Lila is a single mother in Atlanta whose world comes to a grinding halt when her older son, Stephon (Aml Ameen) is killed when he is walking home one night and gets caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting.Actors
Jennifer Lopez
(Eve)
Viola Davis
(Lila Walcott)
Shea Whigham
(Holliston)
Andre Royo
(Skaketti)
Aml Ameen
(Stephon)
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