YOURS, MINE & OURS (2005)

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YOURS, MINE & OURS is a rather ordinary heartwarming family film based on a better 1968 original that featured Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda. In this contemporary version, Coast Guard Admiral Frank Beardsley (Dennis Quaid) is a widower with eight children moving into a house in Connecticut when he encounters Helen (Renee Russo), a widow with 10 children four biological and six adopted.

Frank and Helen move into a dilapidated lighthouse near the ocean with the kids, aged about three to 17. Frank runs a tight ship while Helen is more into group hugs. The kids don’t get along, but they soon realize they can accomplish more by uniting against a common enemy. Their parents. Frank and Helen decide to separate.

Both versions of Yours, Mine & Ours are based on the 1965 out of print book Who Gets the Drumstick?, by Helen Beardsley. The real Frank and Helen were Catholic, married in 1961 and lived in California. They adopted each other’s children and had two children of their own. Although the new film doesn’t offer any explicit religious perspective, except that Helen wears a cross, there are plenty of family values, including fostering and adopting children from various cultures and backgrounds, learning to get along and accepting one another’s differences with grace, tolerance and a smile.

Directed by Raja Gosnell (Mrs. Doubtfire), this film has some funny moments, but the sequence of events seems scrambled. Linda Hunt’s (Kindergarten Cop) role as the housekeeper, who doesn’t see much and enjoys martinis and TV wrestling, could have been better developed She’s a wonderful comedic actress. Some mild, crude humor in this nice enough but unremarkable family film.

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