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With Megan home this summer, the TV is on more frequently than usual. She\u2019s a true movie buff, this one, who attended an acting school during her high school years and perhaps still entertains this dream of doing movies. At any rate, one of the movies she recorded today was The Kids Are All Right<\/em><\/a>, starring Annette Bening<\/a>, Julianne Moore<\/a> and Mark Ruffalo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The premise? Two kids of a gay couple, a boy and a girl\u00a0 conceived by artificial insemination, bring their sperm donor birth father into their family life. Okay, the tag line suggests the movie could be a real joke. But I remembered seeing the trailer and laughing, so we gave it a whirl.<\/p>\n

Given the recent turn of events in New York state,<\/a> where gay couples are now allowed to legally wed and receive the same benefits as heterosexual married couples, this movie couldn\u2019t be more timely. And Bening and Moore are such terrific actresses that you feel as though you are inside these people\u2019s lives, living their angst, uncertainties, doubts. The kids, played by Mia Wasikowska,<\/a> (Alice in Wonderland) and Joshua Ryan Hutcherson<\/a>, a pair of Libras born two days and a couple of years apart, are perfectly cast.<\/p>\n

So imagine it: you\u2019re a teenager with two moms and you and your brother\u00a0 are actually half-siblings because you share the same sperm donor. High school is weird enough without having this added complication, right? \u00a0\u00a0One of your moms is a physician (Bening, a control freak) and the other one is still trying to figure out what she\u2019s going to be when she grows up. Julianne Moore studied architecture, but didn\u2019t finish her degree, and is now starting a landscape business. When they meet the sperm Ruffalo <\/a>(Shutter Island, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) all bets are off.<\/p>\n

The movie was nominated for four Oscars and won two Golden Globes. When you watch, you understand why. The raw emotional impact in this movie is shocking. At some point, you forget you\u2019re\u00a0 watching a movie. When Bening discovers that Moore has been sleeping with Ruffalo, her pain is your pain, the anguish of anyone \u2013 male or female \u2013 who feels betrayed in a relationship. Her face squishes up in a way that communicates a soul torn open, shredded, beyond salvation. \u00a0When Moore apologizes to her family, she does so by muting the TV and announcing she has something to say. Bening is sitting between their son and daughter and her face crumples like\u00a0 crepe paper as Moore makes her apology.<\/p>\n

There are synchronous moments in this movie, but not in the way you expect. A clump of hair in a drain addresses the intimacies of living with\u00a0 a partner and is the dead giveaway for\u00a0 Bening’s discovery that Moore is sleeping with Ruffalo.<\/p>\n

The teenagers are perfectly cast and communicate what it\u2019s like to be a kid raised by two mothers. One of Megan\u2019s male friends from college had two moms as he was growing up. It sure didn\u2019t hurt his SAT scores, his IQ scores, or anything else about his intelligence or his ambitions. But as we watched the movie, we kept talking about Ross, whom we consider our surrogate son, the kid who is always welcome here, for as long as he wants to stay. When Megan did her month-long internship at Dolphins Plus, she stayed with\u00a0 Ross\u2019s mom. What does Ross think of the movie? We don’t know yet.<\/p>\n

The traditional family of Leave It to Beaver<\/em> and Father Knows Best<\/em> and the Donna Reed Show<\/em> are dead. That was the 1950s, when fewer than 50% of women worked, when the Cold War raged, Russia was our arch enemy, and China was some backward Communist country.<\/p>\n

The Kids Are All Right<\/em> is the new norm. Even the blah title tells you that. The world and its paradigms are in flux, the family is redefining itself, \u00a0and the fact that New York has recognized same sex marriage\u00a0 is a game changer. And yet, you still have the Repugs up there in front of the cameras, raging about how gay marriage will undermine the \u00a0American family.<\/p>\n

Eventually, these Repugs will die off, their silly arguments will vanish in the dark corridors of other silly arguments, and Megan\u2019s generation will assume the helm.\u00a0 And her generation does not recognize differences in skin color,\u00a0 sexual orientation, religious biases or anything else. They are the true egalitarians. Live and let live, that\u2019s\u00a0 their motto. They not only believe it, they\u00a0 actually live it.<\/p>\n

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