The Kids Are All Right (2010)

I love how Jules stand in front of the TV and say what she wanna say for Nic and the families; it's so real and satisfying to look at someone who did wrong and hurt her families; being brave and confessed why she did wrong and the reason was so true that when we stayed in a relationship for too long, it's easy to hurt the one you loved the most, to feel being loved and let the one to feel how painful or torturing your loved one gave you (even the love remains unchanged, it just like what jules said: just two people slogging through the shit, year after year, getting older, changing.)Great writer and director, turning some daily life events into an interesting story line, with no muss and no fuss, no dragging on any story line. And seriously, all of the main actresses and actors deserved the prize of their years for this movie already.A little late, but I'm still glad to have the opportunity to watch this movie tonight.

In Los Angeles, the lesbians Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nicole "Nic" (Annette Bening) are mothers of the eighteen year-old Joni Mitchell (Mia Wasikowska) and fifteen year-old Laser (Josh Hutcherson) that have been conceived by the same sperm donor for the artificial insemination. Nic is a doctor; Jules is a housewife graduated in architecture and has just started a gardening business but she is not supported by Nic and has no clients; Joni has joined the college; and Laser is in high-school. Out of the blue, Joni decides to seek out her biological father and she finds Paul (Mark Ruffalo), who is a businessman with a restaurant and a nontrangenic plantation. After the first encounter, they invite Paul to have dinner with their family and Paul hires Jules to transform his back garden. Paul gets close to Joni and Laser and has a love affair with Jules. He falls in love for her, but Jules still loves Nic. Meanwhile Nic feels that she is losing her authority with the children and is jealous of Paul. How will this triangle of love end?"The Kids Are All Righta" is an original dramatic comedy (or comic drama) about an unconventional family that is deeply affected when the sperm donor is brought to them. The conclusion is realistic and without any concessions. The eternal beauty of Julianne Moore is another attraction of this little film. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Minhas Mães e Meu Pai" ("My Mothers and My Father")

This was very good, just perfect performances from Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as well as a heartfelt and honest telling of the modern family. I would label it a dramedy as it has its humorous moments but is more on the true-to-life side of things.The story follows Jules (Moore) and Nic (Bening) who have been together for almost 20 years and have two teenage children both conceived through artificial insemination. Unknown to their mothers the kids seek out their biological father, restaurateur (Mark Ruffalo). Complications arise as they invite him into their lives and start to bond with him.The portrayal of family here is very realistic, Annette Bening is a type A personality, trying to do it all and keep it all together while drinking copious amounts of wine, her wife Julianne Moore is super laid back, still trying to find herself. Yes they are dysfunctional but aren't we all. Mark Ruffalo holds his own with these two women and I enjoyed his character too, another free spirit, sort of lost and realizing that he wants a family. Great acting all round. 5/16/16

"The Kids Are All Right" is a pretty admirable dramedy whose main accomplishment, so far as I can gather, is portraying a family of two lesbian mothers as naturally as it would a hetero-normative (sorry for the fancy word) family. Aside from that, it's a fairly standard entry in the film genre of indie dramedy. The characters aren't amazingly rich although the kids are colored in pretty well. It's even kind of admirable that Mia Wasikowska isn't any shade of basket case as that's what this genre sort of thrives on and Josh Hutcherson (AKA the guy who's constantly getting out-acted by everyone else in "The Hunger Games" films) is pretty low-key in his teenage angst as well.Julianne Moore is the standout character of the cast for my money as a woman who's kind of hip and counterculture (her t-shirt collection could be the stuff of tumblr fame if she starred on a TV show like "The Big Bang Theory") without pushing it too far.The characters, on the whole, are well-drawn but not inherently exciting which brings the movie down the notch because there isn't a whole lot of action. There's a marriage that oscillates between loving and duck for cover (when Julianne Moore says to Annette Bening "do you even love me anymore?" that's pretty strong) and not enough of a seamless transition to make it flow. Retroactively, you leave the film with a clearer view of what the actors, screenwriter, and director was going for-- a loving couple who fights just like any heterosexual couple -- so I could understand looking back on it positively, but as it is happening, it's awkward. Similarly, there's an affair between Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore and it's kind of a fun twist but it's not particularly earned. It also sheds big question likes on Moore's placement on the Kinsey scale as she clearly says "I'm gay." It's hard to judge this film without mentioning it got a Best Picture Nomination at the Oscars. That was the reason I saw the film in the first place, I'm a little baffled. My guess is that seeing such a natural portrayal of a homosexual couple was the novelty factor and the indie feel is something people dug although indie sometimes means slow and slightly boring. The film also got nominations for Bening and Ruffalo but they are the two most boring characters of the quintet. On the whole, it's an OK film that could potentially hit you better than it hit me.