{"id":5103,"date":"2016-12-24T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T22:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2026-08-13T11:21:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:21:50","slug":"the-kids-are-all-right-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5103","title":{"rendered":"The Kids Are All Right-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kids Are All Right-2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Lisa Cholodenko<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Annette Bening, Julianne Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #560<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed December 24, 2016<\/p>\n

Grade: A<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Kids Are All Right is a fantastic film!<\/p>\n

In my opinion, the film is one of the best of the year 2010 and was rewarded with a deserving Best Picture nomination.<\/p>\n

Annette Bening and Mark Ruffalo were also honored with acting nominations. Bening gives the best performance in the film.<\/p>\n

Continuing the trend of more exposure to LGBT issues, The Kids Are All Right tells of a same-sex-centered family dealing with real issues.<\/p>\n

Though not dark, the film is not light or played strictly for laughs. It is a family drama that shows how same-sex family units face problems like everyone else, and how they deal with them, never forgetting how much they love each other.<\/p>\n

The writing is intelligent, deeply layered, and rich. The acting is superb, and the characters are complex.<\/p>\n

The best scene is one where the entire family is eating dinner- suddenly the camera focuses on one person and goes into slow motion; the other voices become muffled and distant, and painful emotion is portrayed on one of the characters’ faces as a revelation comes to the surface.<\/p>\n

Brilliant.<\/p>\n

Even the seemingly unimportant dialogue throughout the film is smart, as it shows the bond of the family that cannot ultimately be broken.<\/p>\n

The Kids Are All Right (2010) is a worthwhile and compelling film.<\/p>\n

Oscar Nominations:\u00a0<\/strong>Best Picture, Best Actress-Annette Bening, Best Supporting Actor-Mark Ruffalo, Best Original Screenplay<\/p>\n

Independent Spirit Award Nominations: 1 win-<\/strong>Best Feature, Best Director-Lisa Cholodenko, Best Female Lead-Annette Bening, Best Supporting Male-Mark Ruffalo, Best Screenplay (won)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kids Are All Right-2010 Director Lisa Cholodenko Starring Annette Bening, Julianne Moore Scott’s Review #560 Reviewed December 24, 2016 Grade: A The Kids Are All Right is a fantastic film! In my opinion, the film is one of the best of the year 2010 and was rewarded with a deserving Best Picture nomination. Annette … Continue reading The Kids Are All Right-2010<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,49,192,41,215,211,337,339,122],"tags":[1692,3045,1037,2056,2568,3044],"class_list":["post-5103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-movie-reviews","category-comedies","category-dramas","category-indiefilms","category-indie-comedies","category-indie-dramas","category-lgbt-comedies","category-lgbt-dramas","category-gay-films","tag-annette-bening","tag-josh-hutcherson","tag-julianne-moore","tag-lisa-cholodenko","tag-mark-ruffalo","tag-mia-wasikowska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24111,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions\/24111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}