The Kids Are All Right 2010

Nic and Jules are in a long term committed loving but by no means perfect relationship. Nic a physician needs to wield what she believes is control whereas Jules under that control is less selfassured. During their relationship Jules has floundered in her nine to five life sometimes trying to start a business always unsuccessfully or being the stay at home mom. She is currently trying to start a landscape design business. They have two teenaged children Joni and Laser Nic who is Jonis biological mother and Jules who is Lasers biological mother. Although not exact replicas each offspring does more closely resemble hisher biological mother in temperament. Joni and Laser are also halfsiblings having the same unknown sperm donor father. Shortly after Jonis eighteenth birthday and shortly before she plans to leave the house and head off to college Laser only fifteen and underage to do so pleads with her to try and contact their sperm donor father. Somewhat ...

Review

so i caught this on TV tonight and thought iɽ give it a go. i remembered it made a splash during the awards season. i went in with an open mind but left with a good portion of anger.

it's an intriguing plot kids wanting to meet their biological father (sperm donor) and what effect that has on them and the parents.

many things go right with this movie. the actors are perfectly cast they give their roles everything they've got. the directing is good and as mentioned the idea of the story works.

as a result it's really disappointing when it falls through. the story turns from likable to incredibly aggressive surprisingly forgiving of some characters while being incredibly harsh of others. there are a lot of fights many of which don't bring any resolution in one way or another and by the time one get's to the end one wonders what the whole point was.

it is perhaps the only movie i've come across where i was turned off ALL the main characters by the time the credits started rolling.