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Summary: A Comedy About A Real Life Story
Review: YOURS,MINE AND OURS is a wacky comedy about the struggles of a second marriage for both a widow and widower who together have a combined total of eighteen children. The new family struggles mightily to become a unified whole which is finally achieved with the arrival of a new baby to whom everbody is related. This film serves as a fine example of how two great actors can lift a basically good movie to unexpected heights with outstanding performances. Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda are certainly well cast. Among the many fine child actors Tim Matheson manages to stand out.The film's credibility is enhanced by the fact that it is based on a true story. The real life heroine, Helen Beardsley, died three years ago in California at age 70 of Parkinson's disease.
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Summary: A Family for All
Review: What happens when a widower with ten kids and a widow with eight kids cross paths in a San Francisco Naval commissary? The new American family circa 1968. Helen North (Lucille Ball), a Naval nurse, meets Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda), a Naval officer, and the sparks fly instantly. Despite their reservations about their interest in each other due to their children, they give love a second chance and marry. Frank uses his Naval intellect while Helen uses her love of family to care for this very large brood. There are many one liners about the generation gap that will make you laugh. Lucille Ball has a fabulously funny scene were she is drunk due to the boys spiking her drink. Henry Fonda has nutty Van Johnson as his side kick. Watch for their huge grocery bill of $126. Can't begin to imagine what their grocery bill would look like today.
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Summary: I Love Lucy
Review: Great film but who wants to watch a film like this in pan and scan format. Listen up studios, WIDESCREEN, WIDESCREEN, WIDESCREEN!!!!
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Summary: Yours, Mine and Mine, Mine,Mine!!!!
Review: That's what my seven-year-old bellowed when she found the DVD! One late night when she was sick, we were searching for something acceptable and un-infomercially to watch and we found Yours Mine and Ours. Lucy looks great, as does Mr. Fonda, although I did find Van Johnson's eyes to be a bit weird (or maybe that's just me). If you watch closely you can catch little Tracy Nelson (Think snob/valley girl from Square Pegs w/Sarah Jess. Parker, and weird, visting sister on Melrose Place) And a very young Tim Matheson, playing, (I think the eldest) of too many children to count. There are some funny, and semi-mature scenes: Lucy gets drunk, and I mean DRUNK by accident,while having dinner at Henry's, Henry has a date with a "fast" woman, and there's a daughter being pressured by her Paul Newman-y boyfriend to [make love] (they even mention that he's Paul Newman-y in the movie!) But those scenes are quite tame and minor, compared to all the chaos and fun of bringing two groups of disgruntled kids together. The kids are great, but the movie is really Lucy and Henry's, as they try to keep it all together. The best way to sum it up is by simply saying Yours Mine and Ours is quite charming!
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Summary: A great comedy for the family!
Review: Yours, Mine and Ours is based on a true story. The idea to make Helen and Frank Beardsley's life into a movie came from Lucille Ball herself, who read an article about the couple in a magazine and thought it would make a good film. The movie is about a widow, Helen North, a nurse for the Navy, who has eight children. She meets Navel officer Frank Beardsley, a widower, who has ten children (one of his sons, Mike, is played by Tim Matheson). They begin dating and soon they're married.. Although, the kids aren't very happy about their parents marrying new people. But the family is in for a shock while Frank is away at sea! Also starring Van Johnson, this is a fantastic, heartwarming comedy that the entire family will enjoy. Lucille Ball, as usual, is hysterical and Henry Fonda is charming and just as funny. This is one of Lucy's best performances!
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Summary: I Love Watching This Movie!
Review: Yours, Mine and Ours is a delightful movie based on a true story about a widow (Lucille Ball) with 8 children getting married to a widower (Henry Fonda) with 10 chlidren and how the whole big blended family reacts to the situation and this movie is very funny and if you come from a very large or moderately large family you can find some things to relate too. Yes there is some talk about sex, puberty, etc, but I think it was realistic and is very mild compared to todays movies and I think it goes over the heads of most little kids anyway and is still a good family movie that is free of profanity. I would like to have this movie on DVD but it only has Pan & Scan full screen, and in December this movie was shown on TCM in widescreen so I taped it and will keep this tape and maybe a widescreen DVD will be an option sometime but anyway the movie is great and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Children and children and attitudes, oh my
Review: Wouldn't I love to find jam all over this DVD. Then I could throw it away (which is all it really deserves anyway). Although we won't throw ours away - we'll donate it to the library. perhaps somebody will like it. This was really pathetic 1960's cinema: Gone is the class and glamour of 1930's MGM. No taste in clothes, no taste in home decor (much), no taste in raising children. I couldn't believe that Mother didn't even reprimand the son for having the Playboy magazine? Family film? Not a chance in my house. I have to confess I was laughing sometimes during this film, but not because it was funny. It was incredibly UN-funny. I don't find rude children and parents sort of lost out there somewhere amusing. I would never watch it again, and certainly advise anyone else never to watch it in the first place.
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Summary: Not "mine" - as long as it's in stupid standard screen!
Review: This is a 4 star film reduced to 1 star because it's been butchered down from widescreen to standard screen for no reason whatsoever. Heck, you NEED the vast viewing range of wonderful widescreen in this flick just to keep track of all those dang kids! It was shot in widescreen in 1968, as were about 95% of all films made after 1953, so there's no excuse for chopping it down to this putrid pan-and-scan nightmare. Another Amazon reviewer (from Derby, CT) said it all about this ridiculous ripoff of an otherwise very cute movie: "Great film but who wants to watch a film like this in pan and scan format. Listen up studios, WIDESCREEN, WIDESCREEN, WIDESCREEN!!!!"
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Summary: Not at all a "Family Film" in my opinion
Review: A friend brought this over today for us to watch together. I had my doubts, for we generally steer clear of movies made in the 60's and later, and we even avoid some 50's films. I vaguely remember seeing this when I was a child, but remembered nothing. So anyway, I obliged my friend and watched. I must say my doubts were correct, and we were both disappointed. It was typical of 60's and onward movies, where all the children have to be bratty and have attitudes, disrespect parents, etc. I don't appreciate Hollywood's way of picturing children in this light. And I don't want my children to watch other children who behave in this way. I felt the parenting was not the greatest either...I mean, if your son is up late reading a Playboy magazine, would you just quietly slip it from his hand and say nothing about it? I found that scene very weird. There were also other suggestive and sexual things about this film, though subtle, that would make me not allow my children to watch this film. Nor did I appreciate the scene where the boys make Lucy's drink so strong she gets drunk. How interesting though, when she tasted it, she looked just like she did when she first tasted "Vitameatavegamin" on her TV show! Lucy will always be "I Love Lucy" in my mind, and noone else. I don't care for Henry Fonda much, but in this he was a bit more tolerable than usual. Maybe because he was older. One scene that was funny was how they both were grocery shopping (after marriage) and had 4 overflowing carts of groceries, and you are wondering what the bill is going to come to, and here it was only $126! Wow, for 4 carts of groceries! How the times have changed. But I remember growing up in the 70's and my mom only spent $40 a week for our family of 6. Now, I am sure they would have had to spend closer to $500, maybe more, for all those groceries. The 60's hairstyles and clothes were so so so disgusting...I can't believe people actually dressed like that. I think the late 60's and all of the 70's is a time that would be nice to be erased from the memory of fashion history. But then, we see much of it back today. Why??? I want to say too, that not all large families operate like it is chaos going on all the time. I have known many large families who really have it together. Well, I haven't a whole lot to say, for it was only a so-so film and one I won't watch again. Neither will my friend. I mostly wanted to say to parents who really care about presenting their children with good values and morals, that I wouldn't recommend this as a family film. If you want to watch a 60's film with nice children, watch The Sound of Music. Or get your children some nice classic films from the 20's-40's to watch. My children love the old films, even silent ones. I am sure yours would too.
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Summary: Everyone should see this!
Review: I wasn't really intending to write a review on this film, but when I saw another review with rather crude references to sterilization and how awful large families are, I just had to. Having grown up in a large family myself, this is the kind of film that I feel at home watching. I am the oldest of six children, and while it was sometimes hectic--my gosh, was it fun! If I were married, I'm sure I would be having a large family, too. I really loved the message of this movie. While Helen is in labor--"Dad, Dad! Mom says they're coming six minutes apart!"--her oldest daughter Colleen is agonizing over what to do about her boyfriend, who considers her old-fashioned and prudish. This is when Henry Fonda gives one of the best little speeches I have ever heard in the movies, about life and love. He basically says, "Until you're ready for this, [pregnancy] forget it." In today's society, this message is sorely needed.
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