Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterIt’s been 10 years since “The Kids Are All Right,” a queer family dramedy that was the darling of that year’s Sundance Film Festival, charted an unlikely ride to the Oscars and may have helped shift popular opinion about gay marriage.Written by Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, and directed by Cholodenko, the movie arrived as attitudes about gay rights were shifting dramatically.
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore starred as a couple whose long marriage had grown stale, further strained by an emptying nest.
As their eldest child prepares to leave for college, she hatches a plan with her teen brother to meet their biological father, an Echo Park-dwelling free spirit played by Mark Ruffalo.
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