Films like Daddy's Home and its sequel handle this dynamic through comedy, exaggerating the competitive tension between a biological father and a stepfather. While played for laughs, the underlying current addresses a very real modern anxiety: the fear of replacement and the struggle to define boundaries.

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d'Or-winning Japanese masterpiece Shoplifters takes the concept of the blended family to its most radical conclusion. The film follows a household of poverty-stricken individuals who are not related by blood, but who have chosen to live together, share resources, and parent abandoned children.

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