May 16 2010
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This sort of movie has been done to death, one would contemplate - scrutinize at names that are listed in preceding reviews - and while Family Stone fails to provide an earthshattering original insight into the situation section, I consider it’s a cleave above average.
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For one thing, the family itself is only slightly disfunctional in its relationships among one another, a certain relief. For example, the contented son is loved and celebrated, as is his partner. There are hints that the mother may have been too clinging but, all in all, the now-adult children of Mr. and Mrs. Stone, magnificently portrayed by Diane Keaton, seem to be handling their lives with aplomb and success.
The Family Stone rolls out its disfunction when a newcomer attempts to join the family. The catalyst for this family gathering is Christmas, probably the worst of holidays for families in general because Chritmas is also the annual festival of dashed expectations, at first material and rapid psychological. A scene tedious in the movie, when Parker’s character distributes presents, demonstrates this motif beautifully.
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Our first hint that things will go badly is a scene where some members of the family mock the inniment-fiancee of the eldest son before she has even arrived with the son for a first-time visit. Then you glance that the husband of the only other child (of five) who is married has delayed his arrival until Christmas Day. Hmmmm…what does he know?
And badly things do go, usually in an over-the-top and frantic device saved only by the amazing acting skill and comfortable (or appropriately depressed) ensemble work of the expedient cast (besides Keaton, there’s Craig T. Nelson, Dermot Mulroney, Luke Wilson, Rachel McAdams, and Sarah Jessica Parker) . These people steal nastiness to current heights and I absorb if all of us hadn’t been through something similar at some point in our lives we’d inform it was unrealistic. C’mon…assume a runt harder, about what happened when Aunt Sally got tipsy last Thanksgiving and decided to scream your Dad what it was like being the younger, “dumber” one, all those years ago?
Parker also is particularly righteous, portraying a buttoned-down (but fashionable) Wall-Street yuppie, at least 150-degrees different from her flighty role and Sex and the City.
I enjoyed Family Stone more than I expected to, and it made me believe about how families work (and don’t work), too. A few of the status endings at the raze really do push credibility too far, but everything is not wrapped up in a ball of cotton candy, objective like dependable life.
OK, this film was a bit misleading in its promotion. This film is NOT a comedy. It has comedic elements but the film is a drama. The film is perfect in its execution. It is far from the cheesy Christmas films of mature. It harkens abet to films like “Home for the Holidays” with Holly Hunter (a classic in its gain accurate for both Hunter and Robert Downey Jr’s performances) . The familial angst, the liberal meeting the conservative, the desire for like, family protecting family, it’s all here. Sarah Jessica Parker shines in a very different role for her. You feel her painful shyness at dinner when she is so misunderstood in her intentions that she ends up in the car crying.
Not all aspects of the film are to be applauded but the underlying yarn of the “family stone” which could be the ring requested from the matriarch of the family, the last name of the family of course or the matriarch herself are improbable. Very touching moment at the slay, if a bit unrealistic, where they all focus on the describe given as a gift of a pregnant Diane Keaton.
Rachel McAdams is also a bright fraction of this truly ensemble performance. She plays the limited sister with tenacity and crooked pleasure but hides a softer side under sarcasm. She is the perfect foil to Sarah Jessica Parker and I savor the humor, heart and adore shown throughout this astonishing film.
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