The best thing I can say about Sean Anders’ lovely new movie Instant Family is that it made me consider fostering children, something I had never even begun to consider in my entire life.
It’s not that the movie shies away from how hard fostering can be—if anything, the movie leans into the difficulties of fostering.
Rather, Instant Family does a public service about the foster system and then packages it in a charming comedy that prevents the story from ever being preachy or mawkish.
There’s a surprising amount of bite in Instant Family, but none of …
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