The Kids Are All Right (2010)

This is the perfect embodiment of a movie that was good, but way overrated for its own good. I don't see how this is so loved or how Mark Ruffalo got an Oscar nod for it.

Jules and Nic (Julianne Moore and Annette Bening) are two normal, everyday lesbians who have two high school aged kids via a sperm donor. Nic is the breadwinner of the two, working as a doctor. Jules is the free spirit trying to figure out the perfect start-up business. She feels unappreciated by her wife and just wants her approval. While they're dealing with their own problems, the two kids decide to get in contact with their donor, Paul (Mark Ruffalo). Paul agrees and the two parties really start to hit it off. A little too much with Jules as the two start an affair together. She just appreciates someone who appreciates her, and he just seems to think he turned a lesbian straight. They may not be able to reel it in and stop the sex before Nic and the kids find out.

It wasn't a bad movie, it was good. But it was not nearly as good as I thought it was going to be. Bening was great, and definitely deserves her nomination. Moore was fine, but I thought she was out-acted by Mia Wasikowska, who played her daughter. Ruffalo, oh boy. I like Mark Ruffalo as an actor, but the fact he beat out Andrew Garfield's performance in The Social Network with this just upsets me. Watch it, but don't believe the hype. Grade: B