Not every film can be about the corrosive effects of divorce. Every once in a while it would be nice to watch a film where the parents are not divorced and the kids are not trying to reunite them.

At last count, 41% of American marriages ended in divorce. Onscreen, the number is more like 95%. This may be because every screenwriter in Hollywood is a 25-year-old rich kid whose parents got divorced when he was 10. It’s the reason horror films are always about kids left at home at night. The kids’ parents are never there to confront the monster because one lives right upstairs and the other one lives in Phoenix. Together, they might be able to take down the serial killer or gigantic insect or vampire or deadly virus. Divorced, they are powerless.