2005 · comedy · drama · romance
The Family Stone (2005)
Directed by Thomas Bezucha1h 43m2005
An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
Our read: The Family Stone (2005) (2005) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
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