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The Family Stone

The Family Stone

Comedy · Drama · Romance · 2005

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.

Movie details

The Family Stone

“Feel The Love”

2005 Comedy · Drama · Romance 1h 43m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.3 / 10

89.5K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

52 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

56 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.3 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Thomas Bezucha

Written by

Thomas Bezucha

Dermot Mulroney

Dermot Mulroney

Everett Stone

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker

Meredith Morton

Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton

Sybil Stone

Luke Wilson

Luke Wilson

Ben Stone

Claire Danes

Claire Danes

Julie Morton

Rachel McAdams

Rachel McAdams

Amy Stone

Craig T. Nelson

Craig T. Nelson

Kelly Stone

Court is in session

Put The Family Stone on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.