History Film / YoursMineAndOurs

Frank Beardsley (Fonda) is a U.S. Navy warrant officer, recently detached from the aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' and assigned as lead project officer for the Fresnel lens glide-slope indicator, or "meatball" (which would eventually become standard equipment on all carriers). Helen North (Ball) is a nurse working in the dispensary at the California naval base to which Frank is assigned. Frank meets Helen, first by chance in the commissary on the Navy base and again when Frank brings his distraught teen-age daughter for treatment at the dispensary. They immediately hit it off and go on a date, all the while shying away from admitting their respective secrets: Frank has ten children and Helen has eight, from their respective deceased spouses. The rest of the film follows their struggle to make their relationship (and subsequent marriage) work with that many children to consider, and how to keep such a large blended family functioning harmoniously.

* NotBloodSiblings: In the 2005 remake, in an attempt to break up their parents marriage, Dylan suggests this and pairs William with Phoebe and himself with Christina. Phoebe is repulsed and then Dylan suggests pairing Christina and Phoebe getting together. Christina threatens to punch him for those suggestions.

* SurprisePregnancy

* WeddingEnhancedFertility: While it doesn't seem to happen immediately after the wedding, Helen is surprised and initially dismayed to discover that she's pregnant. However, after moving past the shock, neither she nor Frank are anything but excited about the new addition:
-->'''Helen:''' You see, he won't have to worry about [[CallBack whether he's a North or a Beardsley]].

* ActorAllusion: In the remake, Creator/DrakeBell and Creator/MirandaCosgrove are playing brother and sister on the mother's side of the family. [[Series/DrakeAndJosh Wonder where they got that idea.]]
** Cosgrove's real life friend Haley Ramm plays one of her stepsisters in the same version.

** The trope is initially played for laughs, emphasizing Helen's whacky and embarrassing behaviour. It takes a serious turn when she ends up feeling so mortified about "acting like an idiot" that she starts crying and apologizing, and laments how badly she wanted to make a good impression on Frank's children. The culprits are suitably repentant, and Helen gets a formal apology. The incident does have a positive consequence: As she starts to get upset, Helen openly declares to Frank that she's in love with him, and he openly reciprocates. As well as marking a "TheyDo" turning point in their relationship, this sets an example (for Frank's children at least) that their relationship is not a mere dalliance, and that they're not going to be ashamed of it or hide it.

* TheyDo: If it's not clear by the end of the SlippingAMickey scene, it becomes so when the scene cuts to a wedding invitation.

In 2005, a {{remake}} was released starring Creator/DennisQuaid and Creator/ReneRusso as the parents.

* MassiveNumberedOffspring: The film features a blended family, where the father has ten children and the mother has eight.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings

In 2005, a remake was released starring Creator/DennisQuaid and Creator/ReneRusso as the parents.