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High Plains Reader - Fargo ND, Aug 05, 2010 / Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko regularly cooks up dramatic conflict by introducing the threat of a newcomer or stranger into the daily grind of characters whose lives require some sort of jolt.

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  • " I grew up in southern California, Jewish, liberal, educated, you know, that is normal for me – people who have been to therapy, people who talk about their feelings and process those feelings. But at the same time, if you look at the film, there is a lot they are not processing, there is a lot of subtext, they're trafficking in subtext and that is the stuff that really kicks them in the butt in the end – what they are not saying to each other. "

    The Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney NSW - Australia, Aug 28, 2010
  • " It's a personal film, in a lot of ways "

    The Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney NSW - Australia, Aug 28, 2010
  • " S The Kids Are All Right is serious comedy powered by an enthusiastic cast and full of good-natured innuendo. It gives a different twist to the battle-of-the-sexes and the adolescent coming-of-age stories, in part by creating a romantic triangle among a long-standing and devoutly bourgeois lesbian couple, Nic and Jules ( Annette Bening and Julianne Moore ), and the newly identified, merrily free-spirited sperm donor, Paul ( Mark Ruffalo ), who's responsible for the couple's two teenage children, Joni and Laser ( Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson ). Normality rules, as made clear by the introductory family dinner. The kids refer to their American-as-apple-pie parents in the plural, as in "that really hurt the moms' feelings." (The moms "

    The Pitch - Kansas City MO, Jul 27, 2010
  • " Everyone is human and ultimately falls from grace in a certain way when they're held up to some kind of perfect ideal. "

    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh PA, Jul 26, 2010
  • " There's always that kind of first blush of fantasy about who that person is, and nobody lives up to that "

    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh PA, Jul 26, 2010
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Lisa Cholodenko (born June 5, 1964) is an American film and television writer and director.

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