This mainstream summer movie, "The Kids Are All Right," starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening makes a wonderful statement about marriage equality. I love the "double entendre" of the title, too--very clever.
The highly-rated film deals with a lesbian couple and their children, each conceived by the same sperm donor, and the drama unfolds when the oldest child reaches 18 and wants to find their father.
According the Julianne Moore, the movie is not making a political statement. "It's reality. We wouldn't have had a movie like this 20 years ago, but now my kids have friends in these kinds of families--it's not unusual to them. So it's just a movie about marriage."
Progress! Amen.
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Tim and I watched a screening of this movie with our PFLAG Phoenix group.
ReplyDeleteIt was good in the sense that it showed a committed lesbian couple raising a teen boy and late teen girl. And basically how they are just a family.
Then things get unglued when the sperm donor enters the picture.
I don't want to write any spoilers, but both Tim and I left the theater with mixed feelings about this movie. So did some of the other people that were there with us.
Still, we recommend people watch it. We just didn't like how it ended. Let's put it that way.
- Louie