The Family Stone PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 21, 2009
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Diane Keaton, Claire Danes, Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson & Rachel McAdams | |
Performer: | Tyrone Giordano, Brian White, Elizabeth Reazer, Savannah Stehlin & Paul Schneider | |
Directed by | Thomas Bezucha | |
Produced by | Michael London | |
Director of Photography: | Jonathan Brown |
Entertainment Reviews:
What's so refreshing about Thomas Bezucha's The Family Stone is how it plays off of genre expectations and effortlessly switches back and forth between comedy, romance and tragedy.
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[I]ts offbeat mixture of highly choreographed comic crises and the occasional bite of reality make for an unexpectedly enticing blend.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Remarkably for a Hollywood movie, this very entertaining comedy proves that the outward good cheer and inward bad vibes of the Christmas season can not only coexist, but amusingly feed upon each other.
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Herald Sun (Australia)
Rating: B --
Although "Stone" has some problems, it's still a film that works -- thanks to a very agreeable cast.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Rating: 1.5/4 --
a gob of yuletide Play-Doh
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Cinema Writer
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The movie feels a lot like slacker brother Ben: a little sloppy, mostly predictable, some flashes of poignancy and wisdom, but ultimately doesn't live up to its potential.
Christianity Today
Rating: 3/4 --
It's worth two hours for those who appreciate this kind of workmanlike, low-risk drama.
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Product Description:
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.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 132,406
- UPC: 024543234029
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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