[This Romantic Comedies in the Time of Social Distance series suggests good rom-coms to watch at home during our current crisis. Some are directly apropos and some will take you away from it all, but none of them suck.]
My last pick for a "getaway" movie was the musical Enchanted, a rom-com suitable for watching with kids. This time for that same category, I'm happy to offer up a truly adult, sophisticated, totally Not A Guilty Pleasure movie: The Kids Are All Right, a bisexual/lesbian love story directed by Lisa Cholodenko.
The film features five intriguingly complicated protagonists (four of them etched indelibly within its first five minutes) facing contemporary issues that have nothing to do with plague or isolation, so for a change of current pace, let yourself get swept up in a whole other set of Modern Romantic Problems, explored in a sharp, wryly funny screenplay by Cholodenko and co-writer Stuart Blumberg. The movie is unusually alive to character-driven nuance, with finely tuned performances by its trio of leads (Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, and Mark Ruffalo) illuminating the absurd contradictions found at each all-too-human point of its central triangle.
A Rom-Com For People Who Hate Rom-Coms, it's also a treat for people who love them, and in fact, if your kids are 18 or older, a movie your modern family can watch together, too.
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT is a lively, fresh, funny and moving comedy that deserves to be seen especially for its wonderful casting. The couple formed by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore is definitely worth seeing, and Mark Ruffalo is very good too.
Posted by: Stephane Guero | April 30, 2020 at 05:25 AM