Now in Theaters: The Kids are All Right

I have waited MONTHS for this movie to come out. I read about it first in Entertainment Weekly which said, very early on, that it could get an Oscar nomination and might be one of the best movies of the summer. Well, I trust my Entertainment Weekly and went it came to my local theater, I was there! (Of course at a matinee show so I could save some money).

The Kids are All Right features an all star cast of Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, and Mark Ruffalo. Moore and Bening are married with two children when their daughter turns 18 and is convinced by her brother to contact the sperm donor that their parents used. Of course this disrupts the balance of the family, and rifts that none of them knew existed suddenly put the family on the verge of breaking.

Entertainment Weekly was right, this movie is fantastic! Besides the fact that the two parents in the film are women, there is nothing about this movie that is specifically "lesbian". Really, the movie is about families and marriage. Though Ruffalo, the sperm donor, is the catalyst the drama that he causes is not contingent upon that. He could have easily been a step-father, first husband, formally-distant uncle, older boyfriend, etc. and his intrusion on the family would have had the same affect. Similarly, Moore and Beining could have been a heterosexual couple and the message of the movie would have been the same. Basically, I am asking you to take a chance on this movie. It is truly excellent and a far better bet than Cats & Dogs and the Sorcerer's Apprentice (some of the other offerings out this summer).

-DLP