Los Angeles Times finds The Kids Are All Right perfect for LAFF opener

In his piece The Kids Are All Right is an appropriate opener for the Los Angeles Film Festival for the Los Angeles Times, John Horn talks with director Lisa Cholodenko about how this comedy became an LA story. He covers her experience working on the script with co-writer Stuart Blumberg as well as her persistence in getting the film produced, and the power of comedy. "If Nic can make you laugh, you will embrace her and not reject her,” explains Cholodenko. But Horn starts off highlighting that while this family comedy is a universal tale, it definitely takes place in LA:

Its characters include a community gardener who runs a restaurant focused on locally grown organic ingredients, and Joni Mitchell's music figures prominently in the narrative. The film's central plot — a lesbian couple's interloping sperm donor upends their yuppie family life — could hardly be more Left Coast.