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More recently, Shithouse (2020) and The Half of It (2020) explore how college and adolescence force children of divorce to build surrogate siblings. These films argue that in the absence of a stable home, peers become siblings. The "blended family" expands beyond the single household to include ex-step-siblings, half-siblings living in other states, and the stepparent’s new in-laws. Modern cinema uses long shots of holiday dinners—where divorced parents sit next to new spouses next to ex-grandparents—to visually represent the logistical nightmare of modern kinship.

Marriage Story (2019), while primarily about divorce, is the essential prequel to every blended family movie. Noah Baumbach’s film shows how two people (Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver) must tear down one house to build two new ones. The sequel to this story—the blending—happens off screen, but the film leaves clues. It suggests that successful blending requires the death of the original nuclear dream. Fill Up My Stepmom Neglected Stepmom Gets an An...