When The Father Of Girls Meets The Mother Of Boys

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I always say, love is like soup - you gotta do a little spoonin' to find out what's in it!

Patricia Neal in Week-End with Father (1951)

Van Heflin, Richard Denning, Patricia Neal, Gigi Perreau, and Janine Perreau in Week-End with Father (1951)

Van Heflin, Richard Denning, and Patricia Neal in Week-End with Father (1951)

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Virginia Field in Week-End with Father (1951)

Richard Denning and Virginia Field in Week-End with Father (1951)

Van Heflin, Richard Denning, Patricia Neal, and Janine Perreau in Week-End with Father (1951)

Van Heflin

Patricia Neal

Gigi Perreau

George W. George

Joseph Hoffman

George F. Slavin

Single parents Jean Bowen and Brad Stubbs meet at the train station when they send their kids (his two girls, her two boys) off to camp. Love inevitably blooms. But there are complications: Brad&apos;s other flame, TV star Phyllis, thi...

Douglas Sirk

Week-End with Father

More like a sit-com than a movie.

&quot;Week-End with Father&quot; is very much in the same tradition as the film &quot;Yours, Mine and Ours&quot; as well as the show &quot;The Brady Bunch&quot;...especially the earlier episodes where the two families learn to care for each other. 

Brad Stubbs (Van Heflin) and Jean Bowen (Patricia Neal) are both widowed with two children each. They meet just after dropping off their kids at summer camp...and soon they fall in love. But, when they come to pick up the kids and inform them that they&apos;re now about to become a blended family, things naturally don&apos;t go well. Is the upcoming marriage doomed....especially with Brad&apos;s AND Jean&apos;s exs being around as well and the kids hating their future parent?

I think the subject matter of this film could have been handled much better had the film relied less on sit-com style humor and instead dealt more with the realistic problems such a situation might entail. Additionally, having the parents both spring this on the kids like they did seemed really stupid...no wonder there were problems! Overall, while I like Van Heflin, the film is just a dopey time-passer and it could have been a lot more.

By the way, in an interesting bit of casting the two little girls are played by real life sisters, Gigi and Janine Perreau.

"Week-End with Father" is very much in the same tradition as the film "Yours, Mine and Ours" as well as the show "The Brady Bunch"...especially the earlier episodes where the two families learn to care for each other. 

Brad Stubbs (Van Heflin) and Jean Bowen (Patricia Neal) are both widowed with two children each. They meet just after dropping off their kids at summer camp...and soon they fall in love. But, when they come to pick up the kids and inform them that they're now about to become a blended family, things naturally don't go well. Is the upcoming marriage doomed....especially with Brad's AND Jean's exs being around as well and the kids hating their future parent?

I think the subject matter of this film could have been handled much better had the film relied less on sit-com style humor and instead dealt more with the realistic problems such a situation might entail. Additionally, having the parents both spring this on the kids like they did seemed really stupid...no wonder there were problems! Overall, while I like Van Heflin, the film is just a dopey time-passer and it could have been a lot more.

By the way, in an interesting bit of casting the two little girls are played by real life sisters, Gigi and Janine Perreau.

Single parents Jean Bowen and Brad Stubbs meet at the train station when they send their kids (his two girls, her two boys) off to camp. Love inevitably blooms. But there are complications: Brad's other flame, TV star Phyllis, thinks he plans to marry her, while Jean has caught the eye of beefcake camp counselor Don Adams. A hectic weekend at camp (with Phyllis an uninvited guest) brings the expected lovers' tiff. Who will straighten out Jean and Brad's lives?

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