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Film Review: Blended (2014) in Sun City, South Africa
Blended (2014) turns Sun City, South Africa, into the setting for an American family comedy. This Film Audit asks a different question from whether the jokes work: what did Hollywood preserve when it filmed at Sun City in 2013, and what disappeared when a specific South African place was packaged as a broader idea of “Africa”?