“Incredibly, Intimately Personal”: ‘Nuclear Family’ Tells Story Of Lesbian Moms And Daughter Caught In Monumental Custody Battle — HBO TCA

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Filmmaker Ry Russo-Young has built a successful career in Hollywood, directing The Sun Is Also a Star (2019) and Before I Fall (2017), among other titles.

Those two films were fictional tales adapted from novels, but for real-life drama she need look no further than her own childhood.At age 9 Russo-Young became the object of a landmark custody dispute that hinged on the parental rights of same-sex couples, and the interests of a biological father who, from one point of view, was no more than a sperm donor.Russo-Young revisits the case in Nuclear Family, a three-part HBO documentary series that begins airing on Sunday.“At first I didn’t want to necessarily make a documentary out of this story.