Family Stone

Pros: great cast, very nice story, extremely funny at parts
Cons: none

Going home to his parents for Christmas, Dermot Mulroney’s character is taking his girlfriend back for the first time. He is a successful businessman, and she fits right into the world that she sees him in. But beyond what he does for a living, he has ...

Pros: Wonderful cast. Entertaining, touching movie.
Cons: Not as funny as had expected. Characters could have been developed more.

After seeing previews for The Family Stone, I decided that I wanted to see it. I like the cast and the movie looked like it would be a funny Christmas movie. The movie turned out to be a bit different from what I expected, but I did still ...

Pros: Parker's character development, original story
Cons: Too many subplots and characters spread the whole thing too thin

The Family Stone is a very liberal Christmas movie about a highly dysfunctional family and their reaction to the newest potential member of their diverse clan. It’s basically the chick flick version of Meet the Parents, minus most of the ...

Pros: familiar faces in largely unfamiliar roles
Cons: boring, uneven tone, derivative, painfully bad

Writer-director, Thomas Bezucha, has given us the latest incarnation of Meet the Parents, that 2000 comedy that reminded us - you never just marry a person; you marry the entire family. With a worldwide gross of $330 million, Meet the Parents has had ...

Pros: The acting, especially Rachel McAdams and Luke Wilson.
Cons: A little too over done at times.

I've seen the REF, Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, Guess Who and the Royal Tennenbaums, and many other "family" movies and "Uncomfortable Fiance" movies, so I think I'm pretty familiar with the themes presented in the comedy The Family Stone. ...

Pros: Characters, acting, characters, acting, characters, acting
Cons: Formulaic clichés, formulaic clichés, formulaic clichés

Sometimes, you can take the most clichéd film possible, but if you have the right frame of mind going in and the acting is above average, you can still really enjoy the movie. Such was the case for me with The Family Stone. Truthfully, I ...

Pros: Combines humour, drama and romance well, great cast
Cons: I can't think of any

The Family Stone is a sort of Christmas movie which tangles so many life situations in it’s 103 minutes. It’s rare that a movie can be worthy of not only drama, comedy as well as romance, but The Family Stone sports all three titles. It ...

Pros: Range of emotional appeal; acting; story complexity; humor; Keaton, Parker, Danes and Wilson
Cons: Some smaller characters seem to exist to drive the plot where it needs to go.

The Family Stone is part situational comedy (read elevated television), part poignant drama, part slapstick farce. With several minor exceptions, all three elements work together seamlessly and beautifully, making for… let me find the ...

Pros: Some of the acting. A few humorous scenes.
Cons: Script. Not a comedy as advertised.

I thought this was going to be a cheerful movie about an awkward family get-together over Christmas. While there are some humorous scenes in The Family Stone, it simply is not the film it is advertised to be. I ended up watching the DVD twice ...

Pros: Amusing and heartwarming.
Cons: Too many characters to fully develop.

The Family Stone (2005) Directed by Thomas Bezucha. This movie review will go better if you have a score card, so here we start with the cast. Diane Keaton ... Sybil Stone. Matriarch of the family. She is not sweetness and light, but ...

Pros: Decent Acting, Fair Plot
Cons: Unlikable or Inconsistent Characters, Builds Too Much on Unpleasantness Before Getting Good

I cannot remember the last time a movie had an emotional resonance with me, where it succeeded in bringing a tear to my eye at moments, that I did not then recommend. Ultimately, and I suppose to skip to the end, "The Family Stone" is not a movie I'm ...

Pros: Strong cast, excellent performances and good subplots
Cons: predictable, Sarah Jessica Parker sometimes goes over the top, slapstick humor at the end

I admit it : I usually resent those predictable, cliché and cheesy romantic comedies. However, I always become more interested when the cast of such a movie is strong. After all, I literally fell in love with Love actually, which shared striking ...

Pros: Some funny parts, star studded cast, nice story if predictable
Cons: It's more dramatic and emotional than it is billed as

When I first saw the trailer for this movie, I immediately wanted to see it, because of some of my favorite actors being in it (Sarah Jessica Parker, Rachel McAdams, and Luke Wilson) and the fact that it looked like a great comedy. This IS a good ...

Pros: All star cast, great story
Cons: Somewhat predictable

I first saw The Family Stone in the theater and then recently watched it on television. When a film's cast is mostly comprised of big name actors, like Diane Keaton, Luke Wilson, Sarah Jessica Parker, the film could either be a huge flop or ...

Pros: Sarah Jessica Parker's performance and some touching moments.
Cons: Lack of strong family dynamics and the initial unpleasantness of the Stones family.

Over the last few years, there had been a number of great movies about dysfunctional families: the charming Little Miss Sunshine, the quirky and wonderfully Salinger-esque The Royal Tenenbaums, and the poignantly emotional Junebug. Unlike the films that ...