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Kids Are All Right, The

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy

Written by: Lisa Cholodenko
Stuart Blumberg

Directed by: Lisa Cholodenko

Release Date:
Theatrical: July 9, 2010

Running Time: 104 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some teen drug and alcohol use

Starring Annette Bening , Julianne Moore , Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson, and Mark Ruffalo

Two teenaged children get the notion to seek out their biological father and introduce him into the family life that their two mothers have built for them. Once the donor is found, the household will never be the same, as family ties are defined, re—defined, and re—re—defined. (Focus Features)

What The Critics Said

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100

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

This warm, funny, sexy, smart movie erases the boundaries between specialized ''gay content'' and universal ''family content'' with such sneaky authority.

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100

New York Magazine David Edelstein

The self-satire of The Kids Are All Right is so knowing, so rich, so hilarious, so damn healthy that it blows all thoughts of degeneracy out of your head.

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100

Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

Witty, urbane and thoroughly entertaining.

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100

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Though The Kids Are All Right sometimes smacks of political correctness, Cholodenko succeeds brilliantly in making her little clan seem completely run-of-the-mill.

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100

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

"All right" doesn't begin to describe it. The Kids Are All Right is wonderful. Here is a film that respects and enjoys all of its characters, the give-and-take and recklessness and wisdom of any functioning family unit, conventional or un-.

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100

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Every scene has its highlights, from amusing observations about sex to poignant truths about parenting and partnerships. But what you'll remember most is the exquisitely lovely final scene, in which Cholodenko reminds us that all we need is a single moment of perfection -in a family, or even in a film - to believe that somehow, things will always be all right.

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100

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

A thrillingly funny and casually profound film.

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100

The New York Times A.O. Scott

It is outrageously funny without ever exaggerating for comic effect, and heartbreaking with only minimal melodramatic embellishment.

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100

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Like her (Cholodenko) other movies, this one has vivid characters and strong performances and flows like a slice of life set in an appealing, interesting world. But this one also has a good story and, if you're paying attention, a distinct point of view.

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100

Slate Dana Stevens

The movie we've been waiting for all year: a comedy that doesn't take cheap shots, a drama that doesn't manipulate, a movie of ideas that doesn't preach. It's a rich, layered, juicy film, with quiet revelations punctuated by big laughs.

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100

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Movies like The Kids Are All Right -- beautifully written, impeccably played, funny and randy and true -- don’t come along very often.

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100

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Calvin Wilson

The Kids Are All Right probably could have used a few more scenes to come to an even more satisfying conclusion. But it's a terrific film anyway.

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95

Movieline Stephanie Zacharek

More universal than it is alternative, except in one sense: There’s nothing else on the contemporary movie landscape like it.

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91

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

Cholodenko’s casually observant style perfectly matches the cast’s thoughtful work, though the film ultimately proves more successful at creating messy situations than trying to resolve them.

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90

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

The Kids Are All Right ranks with the most compelling portraits of an American marriage, regardless of sexuality, in film history.

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90

NPR Ella Taylor

It's a classic Hollywood domestic comedy with a mischievous twist.

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89

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

The Kids are All Right, a grin-cracking great portrait of a modern American family in minor and then major crises.

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88

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Cholodenko, whose previous features include the pretentious "High Art" and the sudsy "Laurel Canyon," pitches The Kids Are All Right at right level - there's enough light comedy to leaven the melodrama and keep it from becoming overbearing.

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88

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

That humor is a the delicious underpinning to whatever melodrama happens as these five connect and clash. And that humor is what reassures us, even at its darkest moments, that no matter how things work out for the adults, these kids are going to be all right.

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88

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

Here are five gifted actors at the top of their games as five characters in search of what makes a family.

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88

USA Today Claudia Puig

This gem features five topnotch, multidimensional performances in one of this summer's most engaging films.

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88

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

The actors are to die for. Bening and Moore nail every nuance of a relationship going adrift. And Ruffalo is dynamite as a man keeping himself at a distance. Kids makes its own special magic. It’s irresistible.

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88

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Moore and Bening are superb actors here, evoking a marriage of more than 20 years, and all of its shadings and secrets, idealism and compromise.

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83

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Positioned somewhere between sitcom and piercing human drama, The Kids Are All Right, is both overtly familiar and cutting edge.

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80

Arizona Republic Kerry Lengel

Mark Ruffalo, in just the right amount of stubble, grease and leather, plays Paul, about as cool an instant dad as a SoCal kid named Laser could hope for.

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75

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Ruefully funny, beautifully acted comedy of manners.

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75

St. Petersburg Times Steve Persall

What makes Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right remarkable also makes it a tad humdrum, which may be the filmmaker's point.

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75

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

Arrives as the perfect midsummer movie, a comedy about a flawed-but-functional family that, like "Toy Story 3," captures the drama of growth and separation in all its exhilaration and heartache.

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75

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

I spent The Kids are All Right wondering whether director Lisa Cholodenko was affectionate toward her self-absorbed characters or gently mocking them. In the end, I thought she was both and liked the film more.

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75

New York Observer Rex Reed

Some people might blindly and inaccurately accuse this movie of attacking family values, but it has exactly the opposite effect. Touching and funny in their upheaval, the people in The Kids Are All Right open the door to a brand new examination of family values that leaves you charged and cheering.

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75

New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott

A thoroughly and unmistakably modern film so rooted in the now that it's bound to be remembered as a cinematic landmark.

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70

Variety Rob Nelson

Sparked by wonderfully lived-in performances from Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right is alright, if not up to the level of writer-director Lisa Cholodenko's earlier pair of new bohemian dramas, "High Art" and "Laurel Canyon."

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70

Village Voice J. Hoberman

Serious comedy, powered by an enthusiastic cast and full of good-natured innuendo, Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right gives adolescent coming-of-age and the battle of the sexes a unique twist.

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70

The Hollywood Reporter Justin Lowe

This love letter to gay-marriage supporters is respectably entertaining filmmaking, it's just not exceptional.

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60

Time Out New York Keith Uhlich

Never quite shakes its sitcom-ish setup. The director alternates incident-laden storytelling with penetrating character moments that her terrific cast acts to the fullest.

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60

Boxoffice Magazine Ray Greene

The soul of the movie is Mia Wasikowska, a radiant young actress who captures with quiet precision the quandary of a bookish “good girl” suddenly roused to wider personal and experiential possibilities, and to their potential cost.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Cholodenko casts much better than she writes. Yet, alas, even a talented veteran like Moore can’t sell a hoary line like, “Sometimes you hurt the ones you love the most.” Maybe if she’d set it to music – nope, sorry, that’s already been done.

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40

The New Yorker Anthony Lane

There are not only glancing moments but whole sequences in this movie when the agony of social embarrassment makes you want to haul the characters to their feet and slap them in the chops.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.4 (out of 10) based on 48 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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