Our Son review – Billy Porter and Luke Evans are gay dads in poignant custody battle

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Our Son review – Billy Porter and Luke Evans are gay dads in poignant custody battle

This impeccably performed, engaging take on Kramer vs Kramer delivers a subtly shaded portrait of current gay lifestylesThis poignant drama is practically a remake of Kramer vs Kramer from 1979 – though this time with two divorcing New York-based dads fighting for custody of their kid instead of K2’s traditional pairing of a husband and wife. And like the older Dustin Hoffman-Meryl Streep vehicle, Our Son is a bit soapy and middlebrow, but impec…