The Family Stone (2005)

It's trash, and so are you!

It's a completely predictable chickie Christmas movie. The gay son who only exists so the family can be open-minded. The eldest daughter who only exists to give them a cute little girl hanging around the house. The dad (a college professor, of course) who is vaguely intellectual but mostly just vacant. And the obvious partner-swapping between sets of siblings.

My favorite is Land of the Misfit Toys.

Well you can kiss any promotions goodbye, OP. Unfortunate.

Yeah, yoi might as well quite your job now OP, you are now 'that guy'.

I agree with OP. Rachel McAdams and Diane Keaton are also good in it. It manages to be funny and poignant but not mawkish. And that house is fantastic.

Love this movie!!!!!! SJP’s one and only outstanding performance, and Luke Wilson was surprisingly good. My sister and I always crack up at ‘BRAD? Brad Stevenson?!?’ Definitely a favorite that always makes me a bit teary at the end. Here here OP!

I too agree with OP. I love this movie; watched it last weekend for the 15th year in a row.

It is hardly a “predictable” Christmas movie. The female lead is unlikeable and one of the other characters is dying.

The only thing “predictable” is an R1 being a total cuntrag.

OP let his freak flag fly at work.

I remember when this movie was released in theaters, there was some backlash because the trailer made it seem like a feel-good, wacky family movie; audience members were stunned when Diane's character died of cancer.

I have always liked this movie. I was a teenager when it came out and SJP's character was how I envisioned I would be, when older, and meeting my significant other's family. I was neurotic and secretly anxiety-ridden about being liked back then, so seeing an adult trying to work those feelings while being gossiped about despite their best efforts was relatable and weirdly comforting.

The Deaf actor in this movie is so attractive! I was surprised that he's actually straight, haha.

I think it’s a good movie, but I expected it to be funny and rollicking but it tore a hole in my heart. I actually don’t want to go through it again. It reminds me of Mike Leigh’s “Another Year” in its reminder that nice people can be so randomly cruel.

Also one of my favorite Christmas movies. I saw it during my winter holiday trip to Stockholm in 2005.

“It’s like she’s digging for clams.”

I wanted everyone to die by the end of it.

I like it.

I love that they had a gay interracial couple. I just wish we had seen them kiss and there should have been a shirtless scene with sexy Brian White

Me too. I like movies set in waspy, academic-milieus and the fact that it was quite realistic about how hard it is to fit in with other people's families and how nasty "good" people can be.

I remember loving the trailer and being totally disappointed by the final film. It needed more bite. I remember finding it bland and forgettable.

I liked it at first watch, then it got worse and worse on every viewing, to the point I think it's terrible. I'm surprised DLers would like it.

I liked it when I was a teenager, though now when I watch it, it’s a bit too treacly for my tastes. The atmosphere is great though, and there are some funny moments. Sarah Jessica Parker’s character is unaware of herself to the point of absurdity, but the family is commensurately terrible, and committed to misconstruing her so they can hurl more abuse her way—fortunately, they do redeem themselves in the end, preventing me from taking joy in the fact that Keaton’s character finally succumbs to cancer.

Oh c'mon guys. When they all open up SJP's present and it's a framed picture of Diane Keaton as a young mother, and SJP doesn't know what everyone else knows, and Keaton says to her "you did good".

That was a wonderful scene!

The director went on to do LET HIM GO, the superb Kevin Costner/Diane Lane thriller from last year. It's a perfect film. So its not surprising that there is quality to be found in some of the fluffier movies he did before

I hate this movie so much. SJP should have burned the house down while the family slept. A last shot of her walking away laughing maniacally while the house burned would have redeemed this piece of shit.

I've never wanted to watch this movie because Diane Keaton always gets on my nerves and I find her one of the most annoying actresses with her squeals, her affectations and the forced attempts at cutesiness that are vomit-inducing.

SJP used to be a charming actress (in small doses) in her LA Story days but over the past 20 years or so she seems to have morphed into someone who always plays a variation on an insufferable, pretentious, humorless Carrie Bradshaw.

Does SJP's character die at the end too? Does Diane make cute faces and try her tired old "Aren't I just adorable" shtick even on her deathbed?

the movie was written and directed b a gay man, Thomas Bezucha

It's one of the few movies I've seen where every character deserved a horrible death.

Doesn’t this make Thanksgivings awkward? The girls can say they’ve seen and tasted both the brother’s dicks and knows which one is hung better.

R25, do both sisters fuck both brothers? Ewww....

I saw this in a movie theater and wished I could have my money back. My friend wanted to see it.

Politically correct , pretentious, cold and rude family.

Rachel pings !

The gay thing

I like this movie because it lets the main characters be awkward and make mistakes that would signify in other films that they’re villains, like SJP’s awful comment about the gay brother. But in real families people say the wrong thing and get yelled at, and then go on being family.

It also caters to the fantasy of many high-strung, anxiety-ridden people that some nice, easygoing chill person will come along and save us from ourselves, which I’ve found to be less accurate in life…

[quote]Doesn’t this make Thanksgivings awkward? The girls can say they’ve seen and tasted both the brother’s dicks and knows which one is hung better.

[quote]R25, do both sisters fuck both brothers? Ewww....

No, R26.

SJP is Dermot Mulroney’s girlfriend at the beginning of the movie but ends up with his brother (Luke Wilson).

Her sister (Claire Danes) is with Dermot Mulroney’s character at the end of the movie but was never with Luke Wilson.

I've rarely looked more luminously beautiful than here.

So SJP has tasted both brother’s cocks and knows which one is hung better. Also awkward that she knows what kind of dick her sister is getting daily and what her brother-in-law looks like naked.

The family was awfully rude to SJP

Wouldn’t you be to some whore who comes in and sleeps with all your sons?

It's a testament to Diane Keaton's innate charm that her character works at all in this movie. Even with a fatal disease, her character's words and behavior are pretty damn unlikeable.

[quote]So SJP has tasted both brother’s cocks and knows which one is hung better.

This isn't the best picture of any of them but looks wise that was a downgrade.

R9- He might just be closeted

R21 you did mean galloping or trotting right?

R38 She didn’t fuck the Gay one, just two out of three.

I couldn’t find this streaming for Christmas, but it arrived on Amazon Prime with the New Year so I watched it again. How is it that nobody, including SJP, recognizes the fact that she’s Jewish?

It’s actually realistic. The Pollyanna Marys just don’t like it because it doesn’t gloss over the characters like some Hallmark movie.