The Family Stone is a 2005 American dramedy film written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. It is an ensemble piece focusing on the Christmas holiday misadventures of the titular family when the eldest son brings his girlfriend home with the intention of proposing to her with a cherished heirloom ring, the title being a play on the family's name and a reference to the ring.
Set in the fictional town of Thayer, Massachusetts, the story focuses on Mer...
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The Family Stone is a 2005 American dramedy film written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. It is an ensemble piece focusing on the Christmas holiday misadventures of the titular family when the eldest son brings his girlfriend home with the intention of proposing to her with a cherished heirloom ring, the title being a play on the family's name and a reference to the ring.
Set in the fictional town of Thayer, Massachusetts, the story focuses on Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker), a successful Manhattan executive whose uptight, conservative demeanor is a sharp contrast to that of her boyfriend Everett Stone's (Dermot Mulroney) rambunctious family. He has four siblings:
The Stones' father, Kelly (Craig T. Nelson), is also an architect, and their mother, Sybil (Diane Keaton), a bohemian type who is dealing with the recurrence of an unnamed fatal illness, which is apparently breast cancer.
Meredith, feeling very much an outsider, opts to stay at the local inn instead of with the family...
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