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You Keep the Kids

Name: You Keep the Kids
Director: Dani de la Orden
Released: 2021
Duration: 103 min

Representation Score

5.2/10

Fair

2021

Director

Dani de la Orden

Runtime

103 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

You Keep the Kids offers a contemporary perspective on the breakdown of traditional family structures. By centering on a divorce and custody battle, the film shifts away from rigid domestic models towards more flexible, modern social arrangements. The narrative prioritizes individual ability to act and career advancement over traditional domestic stability. This reflects a progressive stance on subjective moral frameworks concerning parenting and family duties. While the film avoids radical identity politics, it successfully portrays a modern, secular environment where the nuclear family is no longer a fixed institution.

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Category Breakdown

Does You Keep the Kids have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The story focuses on a heterosexual couple and does not include any explicit representation of LGBTQ+ identities or queer narrative elements.

How does You Keep the Kids portray gender?

Fair

The film disrupts the traditional household structure by presenting more fluid, emotionally-driven parental roles rather than rigid patriarchal ones.

How racially and ethnically diverse is You Keep the Kids?

Fair

The narrative does not provide specific information about the ethnic makeup of the cast, maintaining a baseline level of inclusion without confirming diverse casting.

How does You Keep the Kids represent religion and culture?

Good

The film emphasizes secular values and modern social norms, highlighting individual ability to act and professional success over traditional Western family structures.

Does You Keep the Kids include disability representation?

Minimal

There are no characters with visible or invisible disabilities featured in the narrative.

Present on Screen

The film presents modern, caring, and fluid parental roles that challenge traditional patriarchal hierarchies.
It promotes a progressive, secular worldview that emphasizes individual ability to act and professional growth.
The narrative effectively dismantles the cliché of the stable, traditional nuclear family.

Limited or Absent

The story lacks explicit representation of LGBTQ+ identities or narrative elements.
There are no characters with visible or invisible disabilities.
The ethnic composition of the cast remains unspecified and lacks specific diversity markers.

Official Synopsis

Flora and Victor are fun, modern, caring parents. That is, until they decide to get a divorce, and the perfect job opportunity turns up for them. They now have one problem: custody.

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