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Sunday, January 01, 2006 |
| The Family Stone
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Meant to be a holiday movie... It is about acceptance of a new member into the Stone family... One of the Stone sons, Everett (Dermot Mulroney), brings his girlfriend, Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker, to his family's holiday gathering with plans to propose... The family finds it difficult to warm up to Meredith because she is just too up-tight... so they begin "bullying" her... When she couldn't stand it anymore she asks her sister, Julie (Claire Danes), to accompany her... When Julie arrives, the family immediately welcomes her... After another disasterous night, she decided to get away but instead ended up going to the bar with another Stone son, Ben (Luke Wilson)... When Meredith and Ben did not return for the night, Everett and Julie tries to look for them but the two were no where to be found... Instead, Everett and Julie found themselves attracted to one another... The next day... everything spilt over... Sybil Stone (Diane Keaton) the mother, tells Everett she is sick and that getting married will not save her... He changes his mind about proposing to Meredith but when Meredith thought she had slept with Ben, she announces that she can't marry Everett only to find out nothing happened with Ben but by then she knew that Everett did not love her anymore and loved Julie instead... and Meredith now is falling for Ben... Finally things managed to fix themselves and the next Christmas they all came together will full hearts even with the mother gone... Also starring Rachel McAdams...
The movie really is just about the family and does not really convey any meaning... maybe about how even though they are disfunctional never the less they are family... Fell below my expectation... I think it was due to the fact that the plot tried to focus on too many of the family members rather than choosing just one couple... and hence it didn't really give a chance for any of the characters to be portrayed more in-depth... Overall disappointing and not very interesting...Labels: movie |
| posted by
WanTse @ 1/01/2006 10:11:00 pm
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