Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Josh Hutcherson, Mia Wasikowska, Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
The Kids Are All Right, directed by Lisa Cholodenko, and starring Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, and Mark Ruffalo, opened to $505k at only seven North American theaters according to figures found at Box Office Mojo. That's about half of what Annette Bening's other 2010 vehicle, Mother and Child, grossed after ten weekends ($1.004m).
The Kids Are All Right's phenomenal $72,143 per-theater average is the highest for any 2010 release to date, as per Ben Fritz in the Los Angeles Times.
Distributed by Focus Features, family comedy-drama centers on the relationship between two lesbian mothers (Bening, Moore), their two children (Josh Hutcherson, Mia Wasikowska), and the kids' sperm-donor father (Ruffalo). Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg penned the screenplay.
Next Friday, The Kids Are All Right — some call it the "lesbian Brokeback Mountain" — will expand to 37 theaters.
The Times article adds that Focus acquired the film for $5m.
The Kids Are All Right was a hit at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was the Los Angeles Film Festival opening night presentation. It also won the Berlin Film Festival's Teddy Award for best gay-themed narrative feature.
Photo: Suzanne Tenner / Focus Features