The Kids Are All Right: What about the Moms?

If you haven't had enough of bickering couples slogging through marriage, then this flick's for you. What's new? Worse haircuts and wardrobes. And oh, yes, the spouses share four X chromosomes between them.
The critics raved, calling this the best contemporary family flick since forever. And the Movie Slut thought it was darn good cinema.
Still, she had problems: Why did the movie have to make this couple act like every other bored married twosome? How come they're universally accepted in a country that's vociferously divided on the issue of same-sex marriage? And why, oh why, are the steamiest sex scenes reserved for a hetero tryst?
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore are convincing as the couple. They walk the L-walk and talk the L-talk. Moore even owns a truck! The monkey wrench that dives into the story discombobulating moms and kids is Mark Ruffalo, who plays the clueless male to perfection.