Yours, Mine and Ours

In this cute, quirky family comedy about two single parents, played byDennis Quaid and Rene Russo, it seems that mayhem is the order of the day.The Beardsley Family is the perfect example of suburban America, crisp,clean, and courteous. The North Family on the other hand is something ofthe anti-thesis of any family. Russo's children, many of them adopted,run-amok in a house painted something like the Technicolor wallpaper usedin Les Parapluies de Chambourg, and her eccentric parenting is somethingof a "spiritual experience". When Russo and Quaid reignite their pastromance at a high school reunion and merge their two families togetherit's a recipe for disaster. Zany antics ensue when the children try tobreak Quaid and Russo up, and just when their plan is working, they findout what they wanted was what they had all along. With an ending thateveryone can predict, but which everyone will love, this movie proves thatfamily is fun.