Holiday Cunt Off: The Family Stone

None of the above. I loathe this movie like no other.

Neither. They're both awful. I'm team Luke.

Yes Team Luke! I sort of like this movie!

Is this the movie in which the mother takes a nap and the whole family then knows her cancer has returned and she’s going to die?

If yes, I hate this movie.

The Family Stone is infamous for only having a single somewhat likeable character in the whole film. It was unsettling.

Is this some sort of frau film?

I just watched and it reminded me of the period in the 2000s when the Fraus adopted & abused the term “Freak Flag” for extremely mundane things like having an interest in dinosaurs or liking disco music. They wouldn’t know a “freak” if it bit them in their fat asses.

I despise this film! SJP should have whipped out an AK-47 and mowed them all down.

Good God, I despise this movie. The whole family should die in a house fire.

^^Including the deaf, gay brother!

My mom died a few months before I saw this so Diane’s final scene just broke my heart. For me so much of the film rang true because my own family is just as horrible.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. So Rachel McAdams.

What would have made this movie better? I actually really enjoy it around the holidays because the house & town seem so cozy, but the biggest distraction is the virtue signaling about the gay son & his partner. A gay interracial couple and one is deaf... it was too much. They might as well have put the white gay in a wheelchair too with a colostomy bag and the black one mid-transition. I liked the black partner, but the white one was was tsk’ing his lips and side-eyeing too much. So that actor and the deaf plot point being eliminated would have greatly improved the film.

Actually, both Luke Wilson and Clare Danes play likeable characters, but only in some alternative universe would Danes and SJP be sisters. Actually Craig T. Nelson's character is OK.

The deaf gay brother and his Black BF pairing is like a PC caricature.

I hated this movie with the heat of a thousand suns. I remember going to see it at the movies and having to stop myself several times from yelling back at the screen (something I would never even think of doing). I was really surprised because I loved Big Eden and was so looking forward to Tom Bezucha's next film and it was this piece of shit. His career never recovered (though I know he has a movie out this year).

The only "bad family gathering" film that left a worse taste in my mouth was Jodie Foster's HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (set at Thanksgiving). That godawful family makes the Stones look like The Donna Reed Show.

Ugh, I hated this movie and yet I take a perverse pleasure in watching it. It really is a "hate watch"

I hate this movie. I could barely sit through it, and felt like scratching my skin off.

I like it.

This is one of my favorite holiday films and my sister and I watch it every Christmas.

I love everything about it including the beautiful hotel Claire Danes is staying in.

PS it’s streaming on HBO

SJP is hideous

I was waiting for the yearly appearance of "The Family Stone" troll. Every year, without fail, he coughs it up like it's "White Christmas". Bitch, no one give a fuck about this turd.

I love the film as well. The gay couple is over the top but SJP and Keaton give stand out performances. I also like Luke. They also seem like a real family. It was written by the same guy who made my favorite gay film "Big Eden".

The scene where SJP hands out her Christmas gifts to the family gets me every time. They finally put their guards down and see some good in Meredith.

A thoroughly unwatchable movie with unlikable, unbelievable characters.

We just finished our annual Christmas Eve viewing of this as a family and it was as great as always.

Love this movie, it's become a tradition to watch during the season. It's a complex, loving family, but not without its own flaws. Like the mother & younger daughter playing mean girls towards Meridith & Everett hitting his breaking point & chewing them out for it later in the film.

My biggest take on Meridith: she's not the enemy, she's just very different from the family. She makes mistakes and says stupid shit, but she's human. She's in an obvious mismatch with Everett. She's trying to do her best. The scene where she hands out the portraits was the best of her. She tried to do something honest and nice, and it was risky. It could have backfired; they could have seen it as too personal a move and lashed out at her again. Obviously things improve; she's at the next family Christmas. Ben was better for her.

I liked it too. Holidays and family gatherings can be so horrible--it's not all Walton's Christmas. Maybe also because I'm jealous of the artsy extended family in the beautiful old home and it was satisfying to see them portrayed as close-minded despite their PC deaf/gay/black son.

SJP acts like most of the posters here. I couldn't stand her. Good acting on her part. I enjoyed McAdams character.

I love-hate this movie. I love the cozy setting as others have stated and it has a nice Christmas feel. It's a great cast but everybody is pretty unlikeable (except Wilson). SJP is actually good in this. But the characters are so smug, there's absolutely no chemistry between SJP and Mulroney so you don't buy that they would even date never mind get engaged, Mulroney creeping on SJP's sister is just gross and not romantic.

But I do love the dinner scene for the awkwardness and the acting by Nelson and SJP.

Keaton's character was a smug bitch who thought she was sooo edgy because she joked about her daughter's "cherry being popped." That is the most repulsive phrase ever and anyone using it should be shot.

I think SJP did a great job at playing an annoying character

I loved the gay couple but I wish they had them kiss at least once. I know it's a family movie but gay kissing should be as normal as hetero kissing

Craig T Nelson did some good acting because in real life, he's a conservative. I don't know where he lies socially but he's economically a right winger. A few years after this movie he was supportive of the tea party freaks and appeared on Glenn Beck's show.

I HATED the partner swap at the end.

Team SJP with this one.

I still haven't decided if the writer deliberately wrote this movie to expose the worst side of liberals or if the writer was just so in his own bubble that he didn't realize what he was exposing.

I love Diane Keaton but she was so slappable in this. Rachel McAdams wasn't much better.

If SJP had come back at the end of the movie with a gun and blew the whole family away, I would have cheered.

Love this movie. I watch it every year. This year it was very emotional because my mom passed away in April.

I don’t watch a movie like this for believability, any more than I do “White Christmas “ or “It’s a Wonderful Life.” (Those are two other favorites.)

boo for not having a shirtless Brian White scene

SJP is so unwatchable here. Here inability to play something other than Carrie Bradshaw has never been more obvious.

I think SJP is quite good in the movie. Before SATC she had a nice little movie career with some hilarious performances. Had Carrie Bradshaw not happened that movie career would have continued and flourished. Now she will forever be identified as cunt Carrie but she made a lot of money so.........

The people in the movie are so awful that they manage to make SJP seem sympathetic and the deaf son & his husband, just ugh.

And why exactly did everyone think Everett was such a catch?

R34 I’m in the same boat as you. The first time I saw it I was convinced he was fully in the Stone camp and that SJP was the shrew, but upon rewatch “I could not help but wonder” if he was “in on the joke,” too. I go back and forth but ultimately I think the film is way too earnest for that to be the case.

It was filmed in Madison, NJ by the way.