One of the surprise film premieres at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival was The Kids Are All Right. The film follows two teenaged children (Alice in Wonderland’s Mia Wasikowska and Journey to the Center of the Earth’s Josh Hutcherson) who decide to “seek out their biological father (Mark Ruffalo) and introduce him into the family life that their two mothers (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) have built for them.” The trailer is now online, and you can watch it after the jump.

The Kids Are All Right hits theaters on July 7th 2010.

You would think going to a fledgling film festival in Atherton wouldn’t seem to have much appeal for a star like Mark Ruffalo, whose first try at directing, “Sympathy for Delicious,” won a special jury prize at Sundance in January.

But there you would be wrong.

“These people showed a lot of support for this film at Sundance, so I thought it would be nice to return their support by supporting their little film festival out there,” said Ruffalo on the phone from New York.

Ruffalo will present “Sympathy for Delicious” in person tonight at the inaugural Windrider Bay Area Film Festival, which runs through Saturday at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton High School. It stars Christopher Thornton, a longtime friend of Ruffalo’s who has been in a wheelchair since a climbing accident some years ago and who co-wrote the screenplay, as a homeless DJ with healing powers who wants to be a rock musician. It also stars Orlando Bloom as an egotistical rocker, Juliette Lewis as a drugged-out bass player and Ruffalo as the priest who helps and struggles to understand the homeless healer.

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Opening this Friday is director Shawn Levy’s Date Night – which stars Tina Fey and Steve Carell as a typical suburban couple whose lives have become routine. To reignite the marital spark, they visit a trendy Manhattan bistro where a case of mistaken identity turns their evening into the ultimate date night-gone-awry. Date Night also stars Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Leighton Meester, James Franco, Ray Liotta, and Mark Ruffalo.

To help promote the film, 20th Century Fox has provided us with eight clips from the movie. But we can’t see Mark in any clip, because he and Kristen Wiig have a tiny, pointed bit as divorcing Jerseyites. You can read a review here, at EW.com, and watch the clips below.