The Kids Are Ok (1980)
Overview
Drama about two teenage children whose parents' marriage is breaking apart. Kenny and Jill are both, in their own ways, distracted and doing poorly at school. When they come home they see their parents arguing, and overhear their mother crying at night, but they have difficulty talking about it with each other. A year later, after the father has left home and everybody seems to have settled down. The children spend weekends with their father, but things become strained when he introduces his new friend Doreen.
Cast
Recommendations
Daddy Longlegs
The Glass Castle
Boyhood
What Maisie Knew
After We Fell
Son of Rambow
Remember Me
Here
Firstborn
You Should Have Left
I Love My Dad
The Killing of Two Lovers
The War with Grandpa
Wildflower
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Goodbye June
Love You to Death
Ramona and Beezus
Disaster Holiday