The controversy has blown over by now (or has it?), but back when “Toy Story 4” came out, a certain contingent of the moviegoing public went nuclear when they discovered that Pixar had included a l…
.” The filmmaker — who broke out at festivals such as SXSW and Sundance with such identity-examining indies as “Orphans” and “Before I Fall” — was raised by a lesbian couple and later found herself the subject of a precedent-setting legal battle, when the sperm donor sued her moms for paternity rights.
“Coming out, being gay, meant that you were not going to have children,” Robin tells her daughter. “It was almost like you were giving up that right to have a family.” Then a friend stumbled across an eye-opening pamphlet called “Woman Controlled Conception” which detailed how lesbian couples could make children without the involvement of dads.
The ensuing legal battle consumes the middle hour of Russo-Young’s documentary and contains so many of the hooks that make for compelling TV. Perhaps most intriguing was Tom’s tragic belief that such a high-conflict approach might somehow result in his being able to form a positive relationship with “his” “daughter.
Russo-Young is a product of a media-saturated generation, and yet, there were no pop-culture depictions like the two moms who appear in “Toy Story 4” to help normalize the dynamic of her household .
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