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Synopsis: Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect same-sex relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. 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 teen-aged children, Joni (conceived by Nic) and Laser (by Jules). Although not exact replicas, each offspring does more closely resemble his/her biological mother in temperament. Joni and Laser are also half-siblings, having the same unknown sperm donor father. Shortly after Joni's 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 reluctantly, she does. He is late thirty-somet
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Lisa Cholodenko
Production: Focus Features
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 28 wins & 120 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
86
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
R
Year:
2010
106 min
$20,803,237
Website
621 Views


She's got the National

Merit Scholarship for science.

Shut the front door.

Okay, Laser, thanks.

Wow.

I'm just telling him

you're smart.

No, I just work

harder than you.

Hey, Laze, seriously,

don't sweat school, man.

I mean, I didn't do well in

school either, and I'm not

doing so badly now, right?

It's Laser. Yeah.

Sorry. Laser. Right.

It's cool.

So, what are you

into, Laser?

Laser's an amazing athlete.

Really? Yeah?

Did you ever play

any sports in school or...

I did a little

B-ball in junior high.

That's cool.

Was that it or...

Well, the whole "team" thing

just got on my nerves

after a while, you know?

It was like,

"Hey, let's go kick

some ass, man! " And...

What about you?

I play soccer,

basketball, baseball.

You know,

all the team

sort of sports.

Hey, man,

I wasn't generally

bagging on teams.

I mean, teams are great.

I'm just weird that way.

I like teams.

They're cool.

Cool.

So this is your

place, right?

Yeah, yeah, this is mine.

It's cool.

You know,

I've been working

on it for a while.

I also have a little

organic co-op farm just

up the street here.

Just keeping it kind

of local and organic

and simple,

American food.

That's so cool.

I'm totally into local.

- Yeah?

- You are?

Yeah, Laser.

I've been trying to get

Moms, you know,

to buy local for ages.

All right.

- We're just over here. There.

- Right. Yeah.

Okay.

Is that your bike?

Yeah, yeah.

You like motorcycles?

Yeah, I love them,

but, you know,

our moms are kind

of anti-motorcycle.

By "kind of" he means

that they'd kill us if

we ever rode one, so...

Oh, that's too bad.

They're a lot of fun.

Yeah, I'm sure.

Cool.

- Cool.

- Yeah.

It was great...

Great meeting you, yeah.

N ice to meet you, too.

Yeah. It's okay,

right? Good?

Yeah, for sure.

Hey, Laser,

really nice to meet you.

Yeah, you too.

- All right.

- All right.

So long.

Bye.

Keep in touch.

Yeah.

Okay?

Yeah.

Wow. I just never

pictured him that way,

you know?

He was so cool

and interesting.

Yeah, he's all right.

What do you mean

"all right"?

Laser, you're the one

who wanted to meet him

so bad.

I know.

Yeah, so what did

you think of him?

I think he's all right.

I mean, I think he's

a little into himself.

God.

What?

You're asking my opinion.

Whatever.

We are so not telling Moms.

Why not?

Ha, ha. Very funny.

He wants to die!

He wants to die.

Remind me not to take

heroin in Morocco.

Or Uganda.

Yeah. I hate it

when that happens.

...it is now time to call it.

Someone took my knife.

I want my knife back!

Hey, bug, come here.

We're watching

Locked Up Abroad.

I want my knife back!

Yeah, I've seen

that one. It's good.

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Lisa Cholodenko

Lisa Cholodenko (born June 5, 1964) is an American screenwriter and director of film and television. She wrote and directed the films High Art (1998), Laurel Canyon (2002) and The Kids Are All Right (2010). For the latter film she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay in 2010. She has also directed numerous works for television, including the 2014 miniseries Olive Kitteridge for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film. more…

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