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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 12247
Released: May 2, 2006 |
| Our Price: $3.98 |
| Used Price: $1.48 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.System Requirements:Running Time: 106 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543234142 Manufacturer No: 2233414
Description of The Family Stone (Full Screen Edition):
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
The Family Stone (Full Screen Edition) Reviews:
The Story is Predictable 
2008-06-10 - This movie is almost painful to watch. It is another movie portrayed as a comedy in the trailers, but it turns out that if you've seen a trailer, you've seen every funny part already. It's a drama and not a very good one at that. The writing fails a potentially good story line. The viewer isn't given enough time to believe that Everett could actually fall out of love with the main character and in love with her sister based on knowing her for half a day. Bad writing!
Much enjoyed 
2008-05-26 - This dvd I loved from the first time I saw it! Everything about the family, and hardships really touched me. I tried to buy this movie from a buyer prior to this seller. When I received it in the mail it skipped and would not allow me to access any features at all. I quickly went online and found the exact movie I wanted and a friendly and helpful seller who was honest and willing to send it out right away. Even though I have only had it for about a month I have watched it several times.
Less than one star PLEASE!
2008-05-25 - My wife and I left this movie before it finished. It was the most hate filled uncomfortable movie I've been to, EVER. How in the world anyone can like this is beyond me. If my family was like this one I would never bring a future bride to meet them. I love movies (have over 1000 DVDs) but I want my money back from the people that made this floater. We should file a law suit for them even using the term movie in conjuction with this thing.
I left the theatre in almost a lost for words
2008-05-17 - I can't imagine how ANYONE could give this movie a positive review. I went with my friend- both of us wanted to like this movie.. but the plot and lines were so ridiculous we were SHOCKED. The story line is so incredibly implausible its laughable. They use every emotional trick they can to make you cry. The saddest thing about this movie was how little I cared about any of the characters or what happened to them. My entire film class agreed. I would give this movie a negative rating if I could. I'm not the snooty critic type either- I enjoy cheap laughs or cheap cries. This movie has nothing to offer more than a few celebrities..
Plot derailed by too much unnecessary stuff 
2008-05-11 - This movie should have been so much better than it was. It had a great cast and a solid central premise: son brings home an uptight woman who is instantly disliked by his quirky laid-back family. But the makers cluttered up the movie with too many characters and too many distractions for a feature-length movie. To work in all the extra "stuff," it should have been a miniseries or regular series much like "Brothers and Sisters."
The married pregnant daughter (and grandaughter) waiting for her husband to arrive didn't add anything to the movie but clutter. The deaf gay son and his black partner planning to adopt a baby seemed to have been included so that Meredith could stick her foot in her mouth and offend the family the maximum amount. Also, the movie was inconsistent in several areas. Sometimes the family signed in the presence of the deaf son and many times they didn't. The movie introduced Meredith's annoying mannerisms that drove the family crazy and then didn't carry through with them (thankfully so in the case of the throat clearing tic).
To top off all the other subplots cluttering up the movie, the mother has terminal cancer and has not told any of her children, except the one son who lives the farthest away and guesses something is wrong. That seemed unnecessary and maudlin.
This film would have benefitted greatly from a serious script edit to cut out the unnecessary and distracting plot clutter and focus on family love, romantic love, and opening your heart and family to new people. With more focus and less clutter, this would have been much better movie.
I was bored enough by the movie itself that I didn't bother watching any of the deleted scenes or other special features.
