The Kids Are All Right Page #4

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


Where you going?

Clay's.

Don't be back late.

I know, I know, I know.

Hey, hey. Come give us

a hug before you go.

H ugs.

Come on.

No, Mom.

Hug her. That's what

she's there for.

Maybe we should

just sit him down

and ask him already.

What? "Are you

and Clay f***ing?"

"Exploring" is

a better word.

Yeah, well, so, you know,

what if they are "exploring"?

This is the age for that.

We should be

good with that.

We should. We should.

I just don't understand

why he's exploring

with that loser.

We don't really know

what's going on. We shouldn't

jump to conclusions.

I feel like he has

so much potential.

He's just wasting it.

What are you

trying to say?

What do you mean,

what am I trying to say?

I just, you know,

I feel like there's

some subtext here.

What are you

talking about?

You know,

"like mother,

like son"?

Both of us wandering

in the dark, aimless,

"wasting our potential."

Honey, you're on

a whole other tangent.

I have no idea

what you're talking about.

Well, you know, maybe

it hasn't risen to the plane

of consciousness for you yet.

Yeah. Maybe.

Someone took my knife.

So what were they like?

They were

really sweet kids.

The boy was this little,

you know, kind of

sensitive jock-type kid,

and the girl was

really innocent

but just whip-smart

and super, super cute.

Sounds like you

really liked them,

like you guys connected.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I kind of did.

Wow.

So how'd you leave it?

I mean, are you

gonna see them again?

I... Hey, Brooke.

Hey, Paul.

Check these out.

- How you doing?

- Good.

Wow, look at those

strawberries, man.

They're just...

Aren't they beautiful?

I thought you should

have the first taste.

Thank you.

"I thought you should

have the first taste"

of my p*ssy.

I'm sorry.

Dude, I don't even

think they smoke pot.

Dude, hold up.

Come on, let's go.

Seriously.

Oh! Dude!

God, disgusting!

Come on, let's go.

It's alive, dude!

Put it back.

Fine, fine, fine.

Sweet!

Dude, we're watching this.

You think the whole

thing's like this?

Maybe...

Maybe we should

fast forward.

Laser, you left your bike

in the driveway again.

Laser, your mom

and I accept and love

you unconditionally.

You know that, right?

Yeah.

Yeah. And you know that

you can be open with us

about anything.

Yeah, I know.

Okay.

Laser, do you

want to talk to us

about anything?

Like what?

J ust anything.

You know, anything

on your mind.

Well, there is something.

But it's more of

a question, though.

That's okay.

We won't judge you.

Why do you guys

watch gay man porn?

Well, first I have to say

that we rarely watch

that movie.

Honey.

And, second,

I really don't

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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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