The Kids Are All Right. And so is the film.

Tolstoy said that happy families are all alike, while every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. After watching "The Kids Are All Right", one gets the complete opposite impression, that no matter how strange families might seem, a family's problems are all alike.
After all, even in 2010, lesbian couples with artificial insemination kids still look weird, but their problems don't. A daughter who is going to college and wants to be independent, a teenage boy with an inconvenient friend, a busy control-freak who likes wine a bit too much, the “soft” mom who wants to start a business to feel more successful and a (the) relationship strained by routine which results in a love triangle. Were it not for the fact that the lover is the sperm-donor, it would almost seem too much of a cliché. And more than original, that seemed unrealistic, because I don’t think lifelong lesbians become straight that easily (if at all).
Anyway, this creation of Lisa Cholodenko is funny and witty, and I would say that it is quite a decent movie (especially if you’re a liberal), but you won’t remember it a couple of years from now.