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- Thomas Bezucha's film means well and offers fine performances, but is in the end tripped up by holiday-family-gathering movie clichés. The point of The Family Stone isn't really measuring up, though this is, of course, the presumption of Christmas-family-gathering movies.
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Dec 15, 2005 · “The Family Stone” is silly at times, leaning toward the screwball tradition of everyone racing around the house at the same time in a panic fueled by serial misunderstandings. There is also a thoughtful side, involving the long and loving marriage of Sybil and Kelly.
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The Family Stone. Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) wants to bring his girlfriend, Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker), to meet his bohemian Connecticut family at Christmas. Straitlaced...
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- Thomas Bezucha
- PG-13
- Dermot Mulroney
In THE FAMILY STONE, the liberal-leaning, proud Stones are upset when good boy Everett (Dermot Mulroney) brings home a bad fiancée. Granted, Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) doesn't mean to be bad. In fact, she tries very hard to be liked.
- Thomas Bezucha
- Cynthia Fuchs
- Twentieth Century Fox
The Family Stone: Directed by Thomas Bezucha. With Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney. An uptight, liberal businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
- Thomas Bezucha
- 2 min
Everett Stone brings Meredith home to meet his family at Christmastime, intending to propose to her. But his mean-girl sister, Amy, and laid-back stoner brother, Ben, set about “welcoming” her first.
- Thomas Bezucha
Dec 16, 2005 · Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) brings his uptight girlfriend Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) home for the holidays to meet his family for the first time. Meredith and The Stones get off with a rocky start, making the family miserable.
The Family Stone is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. Produced by Michael London and distributed by 20th Century Fox, it stars an ensemble cast, including Diane Keaton, Craig T. Nelson, Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Claire Danes, Rachel McAdams, and Tyrone Giordano.