Feel the love.
Follows the Stone family as they unite in a common cause when the favourite son arrives home for the holidays with his uptight girlfriend. Overwhelmed by the hostile reception from the family, she begs her sister to join her and lend emotional support, only to trigger more complications.
Special Agent Matti
The family Stone is insane not just as a Christmas unit but as individuals as well. Their insanity is probably genetic - they are all crazy in the same direction - but there could well be a large portion of brainwashing, too. The Stones are about as laid-back as a family of middle-class, white, liberal, wacky over-breeders can be, which is also - perhaps - how they have all come to be so nuts. Throw in a stick-up-the-arse, finger-down-the-throat, hair-pulled-back-so-tight-it-could-be-painted-on power chick and you have set the pigeon among the cats. Or the fish out of water.
The family Stone is a romantic Christmas comedy so everyone who isn't married, and is old enough and heterosexual enough, ends up at the altar. It also won't surprise you when the surprise twist comes up (heck, I guessed it before I even saw the movie) but it does show that some thought went into the making. Have a happy summer solstice and post-Christian calendar cyclic beginning.
M (Mature themes)
103 minutes (1:43 hours)
Film: 1 January 2006
