"The Kids Are All Right"
By CBS News.com producer David Morgan
Spoiler alert!
Do you see, do you see, do you see
how you hu-urt me baby
so I hurt you too
then we both get
soo-oooooo blue...
She is feeling good, loose. The family's tension is diffused.
JULES: Look, it's no big secret your mom and are in hell right now. Bottom line ... marriage is hard... really f------ hard. Just two people, slogging through the s---, year after year, getting older, changing. It's a f------ marathon, okay?! So sometimes you're together so long, you just stop seeing the other person. You just see weird projections of your own junk. And instead of talking to each other, you go off the rails, and act grubby and make stupid choices. Which is what I did. And I feel sick about it because I love you guys and I love your mom and that's the truth. Sometimes you hurt the ones you love the most. I don't know why. Maybe if I read more Russian novels ... "
Annette Bening
Julianne Moore
Mark Ruffalo
Mia Wasikowska
Josh Hutcherson
Lisa Cholodenko
"I know some will say, 'Oh, there's an unconventional family, two moms and their kids,'" Cholodenko said. "To me, it looks pretty typical. . . . Whether you're gay or straight or single or interracial or whatever, everybody has a similar trajectory, all families face similar challenges; the emotional rites of passage, the choices made, and whether you stick things out and stay together as a family."
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