Yours, Mine and Ours

Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) is a family comedy you can watch online on iFILM. A widowed naval officer raising ten children falls for a widow with eight of her own. They marry anyway. Then eighteen kids have to figure out how to share one very crowded house.

Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda carry the whole thing, and the pairing is the reason it still plays. She runs her daughters with brisk affection; he drills his sons like a ship's crew; together they have to invent rules for a household nobody planned for. The children test their brand-new parents, sulk, scheme, and keep losing track of who belongs to whom. Director Melville Shavelson keeps it loud, warm and free of any real meanness — the kind of picture grown-ups and kids can watch side by side. A little naive in spots, genuinely big-hearted by the end. A solid pick for a family night. Stream Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) online on iFILM.