QSundance: Focus Grabs Lesbian BROKEBACK
The big news at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City today: Variety reports that Focus Features (the folks who brought us BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and MILK) are closing a $4-5 million dollar acquisition deal today for the new Lisa Cholodenko film, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT. Regular QMovieBlog readers will recall news of the film in our November 2010 LGBT Movie Preview. The film stars Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as lesbian moms whose teenage kids (played by Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska) decide they want to meet their sperm donor, Mark Ruffalo.
And we just have to share a snippet from Peter Knegt’s absolutely raving review on indieWIRE.com:
Such authentic examinations of a same-sex family don’t come around too often, and “The Kids Are All Right” has mainstream accessibility to boot. It’s this accessibility (much more present than in Cholodenko’s previous efforts—1998’s “High Art” and 2002’s “Laurel Canyon”) that should allow for the film to have no trouble finding a distributor. Whispers of a major deal came immediately after the credits rolled, and could very well go down today. But wherever “Kids” ends up, audiences should prepare for something truly special: One of the most endearing and genuine cinematic portraits of a contemporary American family, and one that just so happens to be reared by a same-sex couple.
Read the rest at indieWIRE.
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Lesbian brokeback movie.Nice.