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| But Nic feels threatened by this new father figure who is coming between her and her family, just as Joni is going off to college in the fall.
Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right Succeeds as Both Comedy and Drama However, Joni and Laser discover their "sperm donor" – a laid back restaurateur named Paul (Mark Ruffalo) – and want to get to know him better. In turn, Paul realizes he likes being a dad, exposing the kids to new experiences and sharing whatever wisdom he's learned. While the film – distributed by Focus Features and Alliance Films – doesn't quite live up to the massive hype it will no doubt receive, it's a riveting story about a family struggling to stay together in the midst of sudden change. While The Kids Are All Right may get more hype than it perhaps deserves, it's still one of the best movies seen so far this year. It gets a 4/5. Focus Features, Alliance Films' The Kids Are All Right, Starring Annette Bening & Julianne Moore As for Bening and Moore, they offer great performances no matter what the film, but you can see them tearing into Cholodenko and Stuart Bumberg's wise and well-written script with gusto. Under Cholodenko's guidance, the film deftly veers from high comedy – Nic and Jules explaining why there's a certain DVD in their underwear drawer is just about worth the price of admission alone – to heartbreaking drama. The cast is uniformly stellar. Alice in Wonderland made Mia Waskowska a star but The Kids Are All Right shows she's an excellent actress air max ltd, while Hutcherson resists the temptation to play smarter than his character. Ruffalo has successfully played the charming bad boy many times in other films, but rarely this well. This film's most subversive element isn't the fact that they present a stable lesbian couple, but that same-sex marriage is such a non-issue. By showing Nic and Jules facing the same problems as any other couple, it takes their travails past the prejudice of their gender and into the more sympathetic realm of the heart. Successful doctor Nic (Annette Bening) and aspiring landscaper Jules (Julianne Moore) have been together for over 20 years, raising their teenage kids Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson). Sure, Jules secretly resents Nic's controlling tendencies, and Joni and Laser feel smothered by their moms' parenting style, but everything seems to be ticking along nicely. Many films could happily coast on the premise of Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as two lesbians. But Lisa Cholodenko's latest film The Kids Are All Right goes even farther in portraying a fallible air max tn, yet functional couple that's negotiating the ebbs and flows of a longstanding relationship. Read on The Kids Are All Right: Film Review The Kids are Alright Film Review Summer Movie Releases of July 2010 "Let's kill him with kindness cheap air max ltd," Nic schemes when the kids invite Paul over for dinner, and snaps, “I need your advice about child rearing about as much as I need a stiff d**k up my ***!” when he suggests she give her kids some room to breathe. Unfortunately, as Nic starts to clamp down even harder, Jules and the kids find themselves gravitating more towards Paul: Joni and Laser for guidance, Jules for the sexual thrill that's missing from her marriage. |
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