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But the world has changed. According to the Pew Research Center, more than 40% of modern marriages involve at least one partner who has been married before, and nearly one-in-five children live in a blended household. Cinema, as both a mirror and a molder of culture, has taken notice. Modern cinema has abandoned the sanitized, stepfamily-as-punchline trope to explore the raw, chaotic, and often beautiful reality of .

However, these films still carried a sentimentality that modern audiences find slightly suspicious. The chaos was always resolved with a cathartic hug and a piano swell. Modern cinema has dispensed with the hug-and-swell formula in favor of what critic Ann Hornaday calls "the grace of imperfection." MomWantsToBreed.24.03.22.Jessica.Ryan.Stepmom.W...