By Scott Macaulay
July 19, 2010
When we first meet Paul, Mark Ruffalo’s character in Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right, he’s lugging vegetables from his organic garden to the Los Angeles restaurant he runs. Among other things, Paul is what’s known these days as a “locavore.” (One of those other things, of course, is a sperm donor — Paul’s intrusion into the film’s family of two moms and the teenager son and daughter he has spawned is the act that kickstarts much of the film’s drama as well as comedy.)