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Blended (2014)

★ 6.9 · 3,784 ratings on TMDB

Single dad, no clue. Single mom, flying solo.

Blended poster★ 6.9

Recently divorced mom Lauren and widowed dad Jim let their friends push them into a blind date, which goes disastrously wrong. Unsurprisingly, neither wants to see the other ever again. However, fate intervenes when both Jim and Lauren, unbeknownst to each other, purchase one-half of the same vacation package at a South African resort for families, during spring break. They and their children are forced to share the same romantic suite and participate in a slew of family activities together.

The emergence reading

Blended keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.