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Family Stone, The [2005] [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Bezucha Thomas Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Paul Schneider, Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £2.35 as of 21/11/2009 06:10 GMT details You Save: £13.64 (85%) New (25) Used (30) from £0.79 Seller: direct_offers_uk Rating: 37 reviews Sales Rank: 3278 Format: Anamorphic, PAL Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 99 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5039036025683 ASIN: B000E6UXKC Theatrical Release Date: 2005 Release Date: April 17, 2006 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review For anyone who views holiday gatherings with equal parts joy and dread, IThe Family Stone/I 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 IThe Family Stone/I, you probably haven't been paying attention. --IJeff Shannon/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 37 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...8 Next » Give this one a go you won't regret it September 18, 2006 L. Dyson (UK) 15 out of 17 found this review helpful I saw this film in the cinema and I loved it. Sarah Jessica Parker is superbly different from her sex and the city role which is why maybe some people are disappointed. But for me it showed she had good range and much more to offer. The cast is amazing, their is humour, and also situations you can relate to. Amazingly touching and real. This isn't supposed to be a laugh a minute film, but does have scenes to make you giggle, scenes to make you think and definitely gets a reaction from the audience. This film is so underated. Give it a go. A fraught Christmas with the family Stone. March 31, 2007 pointone (Bournemouth UK) 6 out of 7 found this review helpful Originally conceived as an independent production but when Director Thomas Bezucha assembled this top line ensemble cast Warner decided to bankroll the film, the result is rather like Eric Rohmer meets Hollywood, and very successfully too. br / br /There are comic moments but for the vast majority of the film it is a serious drama of a close family forced to spend Christmas with Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker) a potential sister in law they all dislike. br / br /Up tight Meredith overcomes her uncertainties with aggressive behaviour that starts to undermine the close family atmosphere and the festivities, bringing out their differences, differences encouraged by their parents. br / br /Sybil Stone (Diana Keaton) is a wonderful creation as the driving force behind all this acceptance, the dinner scene where she clashes with Meredith is a classic. br / br /Christmas is the background rationale and not dominate force in this completely unsentimental film, if you enjoy fraught family dramas with touches of humour view this as soon as possible. br / A very funny,original and heartwarming movie June 25, 2006 dan the fan (england,uk) 11 out of 14 found this review helpful I thought this film was really good.Sarah Jessica Parker was wonderful as the neurotic,prim and proper Meredith,who visits her fiancee's family - the Stones - at christmas,for the first time.I think many people will be able to relate to how intimidated and out of place she felt and looked.There are some extremely funny scenes in the movie which is a mixture of the subtle and unsubtle.You will learn in the bonus features on the dvd that the film took many years to get from script to studio and it shows in the end product,which I personally think is one of the most original and interesting Hollywood productions I have seen in a long time.I came away thinking that the actors br /playing the Stone family were a family - a great feat of casting. br / Great! June 2, 2007 M. Donnelly (Glasgow) 4 out of 5 found this review helpful An excellent film, vastly underrated in my view. A really good film for Christmas, it has everything. Although I agree that the characters don't maybe have much depth, you can find out enough about them for the purpose of the film. Diane Keaton is fantastic and Sarah Jessica Parker shows she's capable of a lot more than Sex in the City. Brilliant May 3, 2006 O. Doyle (Ireland) 3 out of 4 found this review helpful I'd seen trailers for The Family Stone and it looked amusing so I jumped at the chance to see it when it was released. I wasn't disappointed. This is a hysterical and sentimental movie all rolled into one and the setting at Christmas-time gave it that slight edge that Christmas movies get. br / br /The story sees the Stone family arriving home for Christmas and Everett decides it's time to introduce his fiancée Meredith to the family. Meredith is played by Sarah Jessica Parker and what a fantastic job she does as the straight-laced and uptight Meredith...so totally in contrast to the loveable Carrie Bradshaw we're used to seeing SJP playing. Everetts plan to ask Meredith to marry him on Xmas day goes to pot when it becomes obvious his family are not happy with his choice and intent on making Everett see the light of day. br / br /Throughout this film I alternated between laughing and cringing at Meredith. I was even shouting at the tv when the hole she was intent on digging for herself just seemed to get bigger and bigger! br / br /The cast in `The Family Stone' is a fantastic group and they all worked so well together that you forget it's only a movie and not a real family at all. While it'll keep you laughing it also has a sentimental ending which just wound the movie up for me. The characters played by SJP and Luke Wilson were my favourites and I'm sure this will be one of those movies I watch over and over. br / br / Showing reviews 1-5 of 37 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...8 Next »

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