| I ALSO LIKE A GOOD MOVIE [Rachel Watkins] |
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7/30/2010 |
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but won't be going to see "The Kids are All Right" this weekend.
The movie stars Annette Benning, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. I am not a fan of either of the women but really do like Mark Ruffalo (from "13 going on 30" and "Just Like Heaven" both favorites here).
Anyways, the new movie, if you have missed the commercials tells the story of a 'gay marriage' between the two women who find themselves in the mid-marriage funk. Their two children seek out their father (sperm donor).
Amazingly - at least from the story line I've found on-line and from commercials - the family is reinvigorated by the inclusion of the FATHER!!!
I am actually stunned by the fact that they went with this storyline (from a best-selling book). Do they even realize what they are saying - a family that is better off when the father is involved. How remarkable! How old-fashioned!
I always find it amusing when movies that want to be so modern, so progressive end up making quite a traditional point (wether they intend to or not). In this case - it seems - the children and even the women find new focus and new energy because the father of the children becomes a part of their lives.
I won't even go into the truth of marriage but just state the obvious - baring criminal behavior, immoral conduct and otherwise being lousy - kids are better off with a dad.
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