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  Average Rating for The Family Stone [2005] - 4 out of 5

  
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• The Family Stone [2005]

  Mrs Rachel L McGovern 07 January 2009

  

  Brilliant! The Family Stone is actually a Christmas movie. At times very funny, other times extremely touching. Diane Keaton is especially brilliant, Luke Wilson is hilarious and all-in-all the film has a great ensemble cast. You can watch it every year, especially at Christmas.Your family will never appear disfunctional again!!!

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Thomas Bezucha's dazzling dramedy manages to be both warm-hearted and sentimental while possessing a razor-sharp hilarious mean streak. The story centers on Sarah Jessica Parker's uptight career woman, Meredith, and her run-in with the eponymous Stone family. With her permanently pursed lips and severe bun, SJP looks and acts the anti-Carrie Bradshaw here as, armed with cell phone and business suit collection, she gears up to meet her fiance's oddball family; a tight-knit, colourful clan who border on bohemian. Matriarch Sybil (Diane Keaton) and patriarch Kelly (Craig T. Nelson) are a loving couple whose diverse children are clearly intimate and respectful progeny. When Meredith's humorless aura infects the homestead, it is mom Sybil and sister Amy (Rachel McAdams), sensing a romance mismatch and attack her venomously, sparking a tete-a-tete-a-tete between three fiesty females. While this Battle Royale wages, dramatic subplots brew in the backdrop, one involving the deaf and gay brother Thad's desire to adopt a child, and the other a rather devastating secret on the verge of exposure. It is in the emergence of Meredith's refreshingly calm and breezy younger sister Julie (Claire Danes), entering the film with a dramatic fall from a bus exit, that brings all conflict to a head.

Comedy from the producer of 'Sideways' (2005), this is a story about an annual holiday gathering of an unconventional New England family. Before the holidays are done, relationships will unravel while new ones are formed, secrets will be revealed and the Stone family will come together through its extraordinary capacity for love.