The Family Stone

I love Christmas films, especially when they're up there with the true classics, like It's a Wonderful Life and Christmas Carol.

Roughly a dozen films that are shown on TV around this year are classics, for me, and watching them will get me all warm, fuzzy and over excitable about Christmas and the promise of the day. Soppy Christmas fan that I am.

Meredith and Everett...the happy couple?!
The Family Stone isn't on the same level as the James Stewart classic or even the Patrick Stewart classic, but features a decent ensemble cast headed by Diane Keaton, the matriarch of the family.

The film centres around a very eccentric family of siblings consisting of Rachel McAdams, Luke Wilson and Dermot Mulroney. Everett (Mulroney) brings along his girlfriend Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) an uptight businesswoman, to the family gathering for their Christmas celebrations. 

Family's are never normal, or perfect, especially when they're as eccentric and this crazy; full of sibling rivalries and fighting. Jessica Parker's character is a complete fish out of water and comes to annoy the entire family. Even when Everett asks his mother for the family's engagement ring to propose to Meredith she ultimately refuses.



As is custom for Christmas, arguments happen, misunderstandings occur and hilarity comes out of this crazy mesh of Christmas spirit. What Christmas is ultimately about, family, making a family and loving one another whether they're family or not. There is an underlying plot point that makes this film certainly unpredictable and tragic, but its not over done and is actually incredibly subtle and endearing as well as being very sad at the same time.

The film has it's usual Christmas themes, familial love, relationships, traditional Christmas games, humour and eccentric characters. The film only takes place over three days but by Christmas day you know everything there is to know about this family.


It's definitely in my top 10 favourite Christmas films. Have a look at the trailer here to whet your Christmas appetite.








  

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