The Kids Are Alright

A great movie about lesbians and how they raise a family. But how many bad movies about lesbians have you seen? Well for me, not too many.

This movie is about two lifelong partners Nic, played by Annette Benning, and Jules, played by Julianne Moore, who have children from the same sperm donor. They seem to have a happy little family, but as the kids approach adolescence they want to know who their father really is.

It turns out their dad is this hip, restaurant owner, Paul (Mark Ruffalo) who turns out to be so cool, I needed a jacket to finish watching the movie. However, this persona of the laid back hipster comes to destroy the family. Mark comes in and basically screws up a somewhat good family environment, regardless of the same sex marriage issue. And ruins everything. The funny thing is, that he's so incapable of thinking anything he does is not cool, that he doesn't realize how disastrous his actions are. As a result the who family dynamic is thrown off, until everyone realizes they really care about one another. It's a really good movie, but only worthy of a rental. I would have seen this in the theatre only because of the Oscar hype and the oral sex scenes which are actually funny. Good movie.

-M