Yours Mine Ours Yours, Mine and Ours
Plot
When Frank Beardsley, a widower with eight children, runs into his high school sweetheart, Helen North, it's as if thirty years never passed!
Helen, also a widow with ten kids of her own that include the six she and her husband adopted, feels the attraction as well. It's no wonder they rush into marriage without telling their kids. True love can conquer all--right?
Unfortunately for Frank and Helen, the families don't mesh quite as easily as the newlyweds had hoped. They probably should have seen the culture clash coming: the disciplined Beardsleys run things by the book; for the energetic and vivacious Norths, there is no book. Helen's kids aren't pleased about moving and sharing rooms with a bunch of uptight strangers.
Frank's children have nothing in common with the unruly Norths. Since both sets of kids aren't happy, they devise a plan to undermine the marriage and team up to plot the breakup.
East meets west as the two families find a way to work together--in order to separate! Just when it appears that the kids have succeeded, they realize they like each other despite their differences--they don't want their families to split up!
Can they save Frank and Helen's marriage after they so brilliantly split them up? It's up to Frank and Helen.
Homes are
for free expression, not
for good impression.
家應該讓人無拘無束，而不是讓人品頭論足
Hi, my friend,
How are you today? What kind of movie do you like? Since life is full of uncountable ups and downs, we always have the right to choose something nice and interesting to make us happy and relaxed from a tiring day. I prefer to watch a film with a happy ending because I believe no matter how many difficulties and challenges might appear in the process of everything, the result in the end is juicy, fruitful, pleasant and happy.
I really had a wonderful time watching the film—“Yours, Mine, Ours”. In this family comedy, single parents, Frank and Helen, plan to tie the knot—but with eighteen children between them and all of their children are trying to sabotage the marriage. They discover that weddings- and the families-can’t be built in a day.
I enjoy some touching lines in the film and those lines always allow me to think deeply and keep them in my mind. Share with you some great and lovely lines. Some lines in the film about the story of the lighthouse keeper.
Frank: A lighthouse without a light is just a house.
Helen: And that’s a problem, because…
Frank: Have I ever told you the story of the beautiful lighthouse keeper?
Helen: The beautiful lighthouse keeper? No. I think I would have remembered that.
Frank: Well, once upon a time, there was a beautiful lighthouse keeper.
Helen: Wait! Wait! I thought that lighthouse keepers were old men in yellow raincoats with long whitebeards.
Frank: Oh, no. This one was a real hottie. She had long red hair. She was tall…
Helen: Yeah.
Frank: And her body, it was the bomb. Anyway, her man was a sailor.
Helen: Oh, I love sailors.
Frank: And he was afraid that she’d find someone else whenever he was away.
Helen: No.
Frank: So she said to him...
“ As long as that light up there is lit.. my heart will always be yours.” So from then on, whenever he was away at sea, he could just look back and he’d see that light and he knew that his true love still cared.
Helen: Frank?
Frank: Yes, my beautiful lighthouse keeper.
Helen: We’re doing the right things, aren’t we?
Frank: We’ve had a bumpy start. Yeah.
In my opinion, the lighthouse implies the ones who wait for their lovers and keep their promise, and those lighthouse keepers guide those ships at sea to sail peacefully and safely and lead them to find the way home.
There are some reasonable and emotional communications between Frank and Helen. It is great to express yourself clearly and at the same time try not to hurt others on purpose. Although Frank and Helen are totally different in their personalities or characteristics, they are still attracted by each other. They love each other and are attracted by the other just because of their huge differences, but the reason why they almost broke up is also due to their differences. That is fun. Here are some wonderful lines between their verbal fights. They have a disagreement on rules and disciplines. I enjoy the ways they emotional but reasonable communication. No crying, no screaming, no shouting, no name calling, but still delivering the clear message to express the current feelings and analyzing the obvious facts.
Frank: There is nothing wrong with having rules. Everybody lives by them. The entire universe lives by them.
Helen: Well, then, Frank, that’s the last thing these kids need from me. There is only one rule I know, that’s “At any time, all of this could be over, taken away from you forever.” And then who needs more rules after that? I can’t live like this anymore, Frank. And neither can my kids. I don’t know how yours do it. My kids got along just fine until we moved in together.
Frank: Everything was shipshape.
Helen: Oh, Frank. It’s obvious that we got into this way too fast. I thought we could just pick up where we left off in high school. But maybe that’s a lot longer ago than we both realized.
Frank: Maybe it was.
Helen: Hey, you know what, Frank? I think you should take that job.
Frank: I told you. I don’t want to take the ….
Helen: No, just come on. We both know what your better judgment is telling you, Okay?
Helen: You know what? Just please go. Just go.
Do kids feel happier or more excited when they did break up their parents? Actually, they started to appreciate the advantages of having a big family. There are some interesting lines among them. Having a big family is not bad, but having eighteen brothers and sisters seems a little crazy because I may have a hard time memorizing their names. (Ha ha, I always have a problem to remember names, numbers, and directions. )
When the kids (twin brothers) met some students who tried hard to bully them, all in a sudden more than five siblings stood out and tried to protect them. I am touched by this lovely relationship among siblings.
Kid 1: You mess up my brothers. You mess up me.
Kid2: And me.
Kid 3: And me.
Kid 4: And me.
Kid 5: And me.
Kid 6: Otter, are these kids that have a problem with big families?
Kid 7: They say we share our underpants.
Kid 5 : That’s just ignorance.
Kid 6: Hey, what’s going on, guys?
Kids: Just some kids messing with our little brothers.
Kids: But we handled it !
Kids: Family style!!!
There is a kid who just became the student body president with the help from his siblings. At that moment, he tried to appreciate that the big families mean many helpful hands in need and indeed.
Kid 1:Willian! You won the election.
Kid2: Way to go, Willie.
Kid 2: Couldn’t have done without you, Bro.
In the end of the film, kids realized that they love the way they are—having big families, sharing with the other seventeen siblings and growing supportively together are special blessings and the biggest happiness. They confessed to their parents and sailed on the ocean to beg their father for forgiveness.
Frank(Dad): What are you doing here?
Kids: Stopping you.
Kids: Dad, we have a confession. We were behind everything, all the fights. We tried to break you and mom up. So we could go back to the way things were.
Kids : We made a huge mistake. And we realize that we should all be a family. Come on, Dad. Come on home. We need to be together. Come on, Dad. Let’s go home. We need you.
Frank(Dad): I am sorry, guys. It’s already too late. Your mom is really……
( At this special moment, Frank noticed the light beams from the lighthouse and he figured out that his beautiful lighthouse keeper has lit the light and waited for him to come back home safely.) “ As long as that light up there is lit.. my heart will always be yours.” So from then on, whenever he was away at sea, he could just look back and he’d see that light and he knew that his true love still cared.”
Frank(Dad): My beautiful lighthouse keeper.
Here comes the happy ending which is always my favorite part of the film.
Frank: I’m sorry.
Helen: I’m, too.
Frank: This is where I belong.
Helen: Yeah.
Frank: And I think my kids agree.
Helen: Yeah. Your kids?
Frank: Our kids.
Frank: Will you marry me again?
Helen: Yeah. Only this time, the right way.
Frank: Yeah.
The last scene is something interesting about recording a phone message leaving. There are twenty people (eighteen kids, Frank and Helen) standing around the round table with a phone on it and trying their best to leave their names as quick as possible before the voice of “ Leave your message at the beep.” They successfully recorded their phone message leaving and joyfully shouted “Yeah”. The ending is perfect because of the happy faces on their faces and the joyful atmosphere.
Hey, there is something interesting in the film---the family hug. I love it, although I have tried one in my life yet. Sharing you with a poem means I am giving you a warm hug right now.
A Hug Poem
It's wondrous what a hug can do.
A hug can cheer you when you're blue.
A hug can say, "I love you so,"
Or "I hate to see you go."
A hug is "Welcome back again,"
And "Great to see you! Where've you been?"
A hug can soothe a small child's pain,
And bring a rainbow after rain.
The hug, there's just no doubt about it ---
We scarcely could survive without it!
A hug delights and warms and charms,
It must be why we have long arms.
Hugs are great for fathers and mothers,
Sweet for sisters, swell for brothers;
And chances are your favorite aunts
Love them more than potted plants.
Kittens crave them, puppies love them;
Heads of states are not above them.
A hug can break the language barrier,
And make travel so much merrier.
No need to fret about your store of 'em;
The more you give, the more there's more of 'em.
So stretch those arms without delay
And give someone a hug today!!!!
Helen with a smile
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