Description

 Two children conceived by artificial insemination
bring their birth father into their family
life.

Director:

Lisa Cholodenko

Writers:

Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg

Stars:

Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo


Storyline:

Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed,
loving but by no means perfect relationship. Nic,
a physician, needs to wield what she believes is
control, whereas Jules, under that control, is
less self-assured. During their relationship,
Jules has floundered in her \\\\\\"nine to
five\\\\\\" life, sometimes trying to start a
business - always unsuccessfully - or being the
stay at home mom. She is currently trying to start
a landscape design business. They have two
teen-aged children, Joni and Laser, Nic who is
Joni\\\\\\'s biological mother, and Jules who
is Laser\\\\\\'s biological mother. Although
not exact replicas, each offspring does more
closely resemble his/her biological mother in
temperament. Joni and Laser are also
half-siblings, having the same unknown sperm donor
father. Shortly after Joni\\\\\\'s eighteenth
birthday and shortly before she plans to leave the
house and head off to college, Laser, only fifteen
and underage to do so...

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0842926/