In the beginning, Djuna says Skylar is her sister, then she says "dad's a lawyer, I mean I call him dad but actually he's step dad because you see there's original dad, right, who married mom and they had me. And then there's step dad. Well he had 2 kids with his first wife...". Then she mentions Lane and Laura are her half sisters, and Scott is her step brother.
Original dad is Joe (Woody Allen) and step dad is Bob (Alan Alda). Djuna went on summer vacation to Venice with Joe. Joe is definitely her biological father, not Bob.
Skylar always calls Steffi (Goldie Hawn) mom and Steffi refers to her as her daughter.
The only explanation that makes sense (assuming Woody intended to make sense) is that Bob had Skylar and Scott with his first wife, Steffi had Djuna with Joe, and Bob and Steffi had Lane and Laura. Maybe they are very close and Djuna considers Skylar to be her sister, and Steffi considers her to be her daugheter, even though there is no biological connection.
Either that, or the second child Bob had with his first wife is not mentioned, and Skylar is Steffi's biological child and the biological father is not mentioned and Skylar calls Bob dad like Djuna does.
Either way, it's very poor exposition, and it's not hard to make these details clear to set up the story. I think my first explanation makes more sense though.
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Rykababe97
10 years ago
So why not just assume that Djuna is the oldest? That makes the most sense.
Steffi is the mother of ALL the kids that are in the movie (Except Scott because he doesn't call her mom). Skyler clearly calls Steffi mom, more than once and Steffi calls Skyler "My child"...and Bob obviously is Skyler's dad. ("Look what you're doing to your father."/ "As your father and the head of household (or sth) I command it, I declare it,..." )
So if it was like this, it would make the most sense :
Bob & First wife ----> Scott and X /// Steffi & Joe ----> Djuna
Steffi & Bob ----> -Skyler
-Lane
-Laura
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