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Kids Are All Right, The

Universal acclaim
Based on 38 critic reviews
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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)
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What The Critics Said
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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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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-.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
A thrillingly funny and casually profound film.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
It is outrageously funny without ever exaggerating for comic effect, and heartbreaking with only minimal melodramatic embellishment.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Movieline Stephanie Zacharek
More universal than it is alternative, except in one sense: There’s nothing else on the contemporary movie landscape like it.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >NPR Ella Taylor
It's a classic Hollywood domestic comedy with a mischievous twist.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
This gem features five topnotch, multidimensional performances in one of this summer's most engaging films.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Justin Lowe
This love letter to gay-marriage supporters is respectably entertaining filmmaking, it's just not exceptional.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.4 (out of 10) based on 48 User Votes
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