A look at the film "The Kids Are All Right"

with Mark Ruffalo, Lisa Cholodenko and Julianne Moore
in Movies, TV & Theater
on Friday, July 9, 2010 * * * * *

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A look at the film "The Kids Are All Right" with director Lisa Cholodenko and actors Julianne Moore & Mark Ruffalo

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    1. pamwalton  07/27/2010 02:44 PM Report

      What a leap this film makes! As a lesbian legally married to her partner in 2008 and together for almost 24 years (and a documentary filmmaker who loves to explore lgbt lives), I was profoundly moved by this film for the very reasons Lisa Cholodenko and Julianne Moore express: It's about an American family and the trials and joys of marriage -- period. It breaks through the politics and the controversy with the simplest of human expressions and dilemmas: Love. Thank you, Lisa.

    2. ddriver  07/12/2010 09:21 PM Report

      I am a friend of two moms in Berkeley, CA who are in the exact situation of the two women in this movie. Only difference is these women had boys, not a boy and girl, but both from the same sperm donor so that they boys share DNA from their father and are half brothers. I always thought that it goes without saying they might together be interested in/curious about their father as most adopted children are about their biological parents. An equally interesting issue, to my mind even MORE interesting, especially since the situation I know about is in Berkeley, CA where these kinds of births are common, would be if one of these boys fell in love with a girl who had the same father! This could happen VERY easily in Berkeley. You might want to forward this to Ms. Cholodenko as another possibility for a film. It would be fascinating!

      D. Driver

    3. robdverity  07/12/2010 05:07 PM Report

      Could Homophilia be an homage to Darwin and to our inherent "animalism?" Sex drive to be assuaged regardless of the assuager? [No copyright on that quotable - feel free.] Homophiles may bristle at that assertion, but their known penchant for multiple partners might belie that.

      Darwinianism would eschew a donor eh?

    4. REMant  07/12/2010 02:38 PM Report

      IMHO the longer the trailer, the worse the show. My theory is that most ppl fall into marriage and family in America without thinking, perhaps because incapable of it, and they are therefore probably loveless, mechanical and inevitably messy. Women have children when they feel lonely or in a vain desire to get or re-interest their husbands, or perhaps, as in this case, because husbands never figured in it at all. It is normal here to blame men for lack of interest in family, but I think that assumes that women have the right idea of them. In Europe, and most of the rest of the world historically, however, that is reversed: men are more interested in family. In fact it seems to me women have even less idea of family than they have of what to do with men. It is all a matter of contract with them. It is one thing to be sorry not to have had one, and quite another to be sorry that families are not possible here. I think if you want movies with a real family message, you have to look to Europe, where ppl have a better idea of what love is.