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Film Review: Yours, Mine, and Ours
Yours, Mine and Ours

The movie Yours, Mine and Ours describes a blended family which the husband, Frank Beardsley, has eight children after the death of his spouse and the wife, Helene North, has another ten kids, include six she adopted, from the previous relationship. Frank is a naval officer and he rules his household with military precision, but Helene’s artistic trait makes for a different household than Frank’s family is used to. Both sides of the kids are not so pleased about moving and sharing room with one another; therefore, they have thought up a plan to undermine the marriage. When the kids have succeeded, however, they seem like each other and do not want their family to split up. Finally, the family lives in a happiness time ever after the kids decide to explain everything to their parents. In this blended family, the children do not appreciate with their parents’ marriage; they want to live separately as they do not feel familiar with each other and especially Helene’s children do not like to live in a ruling family. The kids, therefore, have devised a secret plot to sever their parents. As the result, the couple decides to break up after they have tried to do many things to cope with this problem, but the kids still do not get along at all. To the surprise, all kids unexpectedly have changed their minds from denying into agreeing with their parents’ love. So, they have made up another framework until the father and mother are united. That framework is that some children try to sail in the ocean and confine in Frank about their trick when he is on a mission sailing abroad in order to ask him not to go away from home and another kids confine in Helene and ask her to light on the top roof of the house as a sign to call Frank back. In my opinion, if I were Frank or Helene, I would try to explain why I choose to remarry to the children and persuade and show them that they would get more good things and more advantages, including realistic

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