The Family Stone

Name: The Family Stone
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: December 16, 2005
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 56
Cast: Claire Danes, Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Jessica Parker

2005

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Fox 2000 Pictures | Release Date: December 16, 2005 | PG-13

Starring: Claire Danes, Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Jessica Parker

Summary: The Family Stone is a story about an annual 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. (20th Century Fox)

Director: Thomas Bezucha

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 103 min

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Premiere Rachel Clarke

The Family Stone may not be super-serious or even, well, sly, but none of that matters: this is a warm and engaging film that is sure to become a perennial Christmas favorite. Read full review

Mike Clark

As stuffed with beguiling performances - some of them unexpectedly good - as its script is overstuffed. And though even the beguiled may feel manipulated the next morning (or when hitting the exits), the players put it over by a nose. Happy holidays. Read full review

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

As ridiculous, as mawkish and schizophrenic as The Family Stone is, it's also surprisingly endearing. Read full review

Rick Groen

Popped in the oven and marked with a predictable P, The Family Stone is the Christmas cookie of Christmas movies -- this thing is so pat it should come with the recipe attached. Read full review

Sean Axmaker

In place of the dysfunctional family Christmas story we've come to expect for the holidays, The Family Stone gives us a cheerfully uncensored, generic counterculture clan and tosses a tightly wound control freak into the center of their holiday celebration. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Spends too much time on unconvincing romantic-comedy contrivances to be consistently engaging. Throughout the uneven film and its mixed bag of performances, the compelling point of focus is Diane Keaton's smart, funny, spot-on natural portrait of the formidable Stone matriarch. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Bezucha made something perverse, a feel-bad holiday film about a repellent family, with a milquetoast dad and a smug, devious harpy of a mom. Read full review

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MleaE.

Nov 17, 2008

I loved this movie! it was absolutely fantastic, it has just about everything you could want in a movie including a holiday!!