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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Family
EAN: 0024543234029
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 02, 2006
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 3953
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: December 16, 2005
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Editorial Review:Description:Sarah Jessica Parker, Diane Keaton, and Rachel McAdams lead an all-star cast in The Family Stone. Join the eccentric Stone family for a holiday gathering filled with unexpected surprises. Before the festivities are over, love affairs will unravel, new ones will form, outrageous secrets will be revealed and the family will come together like never before.
Amazon.com:For anyone who views holiday gatherings with equal parts joy and dread,
The Family Stone offers plenty of comedy to identify with. Writer-director Thomas Bezucha's slapstick premise begins when Everett (Dermot Mulroney) brings his fiancé Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) home to meet his family for Christmas. It's an instant disaster when parents Sybil (Diane Keaton) and Kelly (Craig T. Nelson) agree with their gay, deaf son Thad (Ty Giordano, who is actually hearing impaired), pot-smoking son Ben (Luke Wilson) and daughters Amy (Rachel McAdams) and Susannah (Elizabeth Reaser) that Meredith is way too uptight to be welcomed into their family. Meredith recruits her sister Julie (Claire Danes) to help her thaw the Stone family cold front, and after building a solid emotional foundation for his holiday comedy, Bezucha starts to stack the deck with plot developments that, while heartwarming, border on the absurd. You either go with the movie's flow or you don't, and with this appealing cast (featuring some really nice work by Keaton, Nelson, Parker and Danes) it's easy to forgive Bezucha's unlikely blend of yuletide cheer, petty animosities, and romantic tables turned in the blink of an eye. Toss in a case of terminal illness and you've got a sad-happy tearjerker that works in spite of itself. If you don't recognize at least part of your own holiday clan in
The Family Stone, you probably haven't been paying attention.
--Jeff Shannon
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This tries to be a comedy and it is if you are able to laugh at an elderly mother (Diane Keaton) spouting filthy language. The plot features a man bringing his fiance home for Christmas to meet the family. The sad part is the people are all middleaged, ...
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My habit as of late has been to give a film at least 15 to 20 minutes before I either watch the entire thing, or just give up. Having a continuing stream of already seen or unseen on-demand digital choices, I try to the best of my abilities to keep up with ...
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This movie is the perfect sweet, but not syrupy, holiday comedy. If you're looking for profound cinema, please look in a different category, but if you're looking for a fresh addition to your list of Christmas classics that you will enjoy watching over, and ...
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This movie is about all the different struggles and misunderstandings that families have with different themes going at the same time, all important. But, love wins out and in the end everyone is happy. It's just a touching, heart-warming movie with a great ...
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