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.
The Stone family unites in common cause when their favorite son brings his uptight girlfriend home for the Christmas holiday, with plans of proposing. Overwhelmed by the hostile reception, she begs her sister to join her for emotional support, triggering further complications.Written by
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Claire Danes, who play sisters in this film, have played a lead character named Carrie on an acclaimed television series. Parker as Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City (1998), and Danes as Carrie Mathison on Homeland (2011). See more »
Goofs
Some scenes of the Family Stone's "New England town" were actually filmed in the Borough of Madison, NJ. An aerial shot of the town square clearly shows a New Jersey Transit train pulling out of the station, such trains do not run into New England. See more »
Quotes
Meredith Morton:
[Meeting Thad, who is deaf, for the first time]
HELLO. I'M MEREDITH. I'VE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT YOU.
Thad Stone:
[to Susannah]
why's she shouting?
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Jingle Bells
Written by James Pierpont (as James S. Pierpoint)
Arranged by Skip Martin
Performed by Johnny Mercer
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music See more »
I totally agree with The Unemployed Critic that the trailers (and the poster) for "The Family Stone" are misleading, and ultimately an insult to the film. My husband and I are cinema addicts, but the trailers convinced us that we could live without another silly and predictable "clash of family cultures" movie. Fortunately the good-to-glowing reviews in American and Australian papers encouraged us to at least give the film a chance. We were rewarded with great writing and acting, lots of laughs and some tears. "The Family Stone" was my favourite of the many movies we saw over the Holidays -- but we almost missed out on it, due to bad Marketing.
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I totally agree with The Unemployed Critic that the trailers (and the poster) for "The Family Stone" are misleading, and ultimately an insult to the film. My husband and I are cinema addicts, but the trailers convinced us that we could live without another silly and predictable "clash of family cultures" movie. Fortunately the good-to-glowing reviews in American and Australian papers encouraged us to at least give the film a chance. We were rewarded with great writing and acting, lots of laughs and some tears. "The Family Stone" was my favourite of the many movies we saw over the Holidays -- but we almost missed out on it, due to bad Marketing.