The things that happen when two kids of a same-sex couple—Julianne Moore’s Jules and Annette Bening’s Nic—look for their birth father, are tackled in director Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right. It’s a comedy about real relationships. In this movie, the relationships are not typical but still mirror today’s complicated society.

Mark Rufallo plays Paul, the less-than-ideal father-figure of kids Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson). When he’s asked by Laser why he donated his sperm, he answers “it seemed more fun than donating blood.” Paul appears to be kind of a bum and makes no effort to hide it when he meets his two kids and kind of becomes a part of their daily life for a time. Fortunately for the family, he’s a likeable bum who’s honest enough to appeal to Jules. In one scene, she kisses him in a spur-of-the-moment incident that she tries to dismiss, even when it’s obvious her attraction to him is real and she seems to realize that she’s not 100% lesbian.

Cholodenko directed and co-wrote The Kids Are All Right. In her debut film High Art, she also tackles the life of a group of people with controversial pastimes who share a life together. What they do in the film would leave audiences either shaking their head or gawking in awe—or at least those who can’t relate to the characters’ lifestyle—but the ending shows that there’s a price to pay for living a life of drugs and loose sex. In The Kids Are All Right, Jules’s and Nic’s family also isn’t typical and they also have to face the consequences of living the life they live. For one, their kids end up curious about how it is to have a real father. They get their wish, but who they end up with is not what they had imagined.

As for couple Jules and Nic, it’s a new family situation that they hadn’t counted on to happen when they chose to get pregnant by a single sperm donor. Paul becomes like an unsightly mole you know is natural, but you just can’t seem to accept as part of you. Moore and Bening are convincing in their roles as married lesbians reluctant to have a man in their life. Bening's looks seem inspired by Ellen Degeneres.

The film is fiction, but it deals with something that can actually happen in real life and Chorolenko definitely sends the message that women and men still need each other in this world. If you have a family that’s like Jules’s and Nic’s in The Kids Are Alright, you might want to check this out. It’s said to be quite good and it might reveal some things that would give you an enlightened perspective about family and modern society in general.

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