The Kids are All Right

The Kids are All Right (2010) is Lisa Cholodenko's movie about the kids of lesbian parents wanting to meet the sperm donor who was their birth father. The plot is predictable, the direction and cinematography are pedestrian. The point seems to be that even lesbians can have dysfunctional families. Despite Comrade Tolstoy’s observation about unhappy families, the lesbian moms have worked actively to made themselves unhappy, which I find uninteresting. Much better to create characters who work themselves out of trouble, not dig deeper into it. The only draw are the performances by the principals, Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as the moms and Mark Ruffalo as the sperm donor.