2010 · drama · comedy · family
The Kids Are All Right
Directed by Lisa Cholodenko1h 46m2010
Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting when the father, two mothers and children start to become attached to each other.
Our read: The Kids Are All Right (2010) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy · family entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
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