Best Grownup Love Story: Annette Bening and Julianne Moore

  
The Kids Are All Right
Directed by Lisa Cholodenko
Rated R
Runtime: 106 mins

If love stories are about people muddling through the thicket of commitment, re ­ calibrating their relationship as life throws its curve balls, and fiercely protecting those they love, then it's hard to come up with one more real — and raw — than Bening and Moore as the "Momses." The couple's happiness is put at risk when their children seek out their biological dad.

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