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Mood:
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- Parents and ChildrenSiblings RelationsEccentric FamilyFamily GatheringsLove and RomanceCouplesFamily RelationsCouple Relations more...
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- ComedyRomanceDrama
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- Contemporary21st Century
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- Connecticut
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- Date NightGirls' Night
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The Family Stone, 2005
English, American Sign Language
USA
Profile of The Family Stone
The mood of The Family Stone is sentimental, bittersweet, and witty. The plot centers around a family gathering, an eccentric family, and sibling relations. It is a comedy, romance, and drama movie. In approach, The Family Stone is realistic. The setting is Connecticut. It happens in contemporary times. The Family Stone is especially suggested for a girls' night and a date night. Note that it includes drugs/alcohol and profanity.
Summary of The Family Stone
Destined to be a Christmas classic, Thomas Bezucha's dazzling dramedy, The Family Stone, manages to be both warmhearted and sentimental while possessing a razor-sharp hilarious mean streak. The fairly conventional 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, colorful clan who border on bohemian. Matriarch Sybil (Diane Keaton) and patriarch Kelly (Craig T. Nelson) are a loving couple whose diverse children are affectionate and respectful. When Meredith's humorless aura infects the homestead, it is mom Sybil and sister Amy (Rachel McAdams), who sense a romantic mismatch and attack her venomously, sparking a tete-a-tete-a-tete between three feisty females. While this Battle Royal is waged, dramatic subplots brew in the background, 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.
Details
| Language: | English, American Sign Language |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 16 December 2005 |
| Runtime: | 103 min |
Cast and Crew
as Julie Morton
as Sybil Stone
as Amy Stone
as Meredith Morton
as Everett Stone
as Ben Stone
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