Stepfather

Darnell has spent years discarding families that failed to meet his standards. With his new wife Asia and her daughters, he thinks he has finally found a household worth keeping. Tensions build, however, and the family discovers the pattern behind his past, leaving him with a problem he did not plan for: removing them proves harder than he expected.

The film is a drama and thriller from the United States, released in June 2026 and running 95 minutes. Chris Stokes directed and wrote the screenplay with Marques Houston. It is the twenty-second of the twenty-five films Stokes has directed in chronological order, arriving between Hijacked and Night Shift. Taye Diggs plays Darnell and Tamar Braxton plays Asia, with Kalani Jules, Jessica Jarrell, Janeline Hayes and Dante Brown among the twenty-four credited cast members. On TMDB, the film holds a rating of 6.3 out of 10 from a small number of votes.