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 cr