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| Family Stone, The |
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  (4/10)
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Runtime: 102 |
| Public Rating: 8.83 (23 votes) |
Director: Thomas Bezucha |
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| Genre: drama, romantic comedy |
Year: 2005 |
| Writer(s): Thomas Bezucha |
| Distributor: Fox 2000 Pictures |
| Reviewed by: Friday and Saturday Night Critic |
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Additional review(s) by:
Avril Carruthers [8/10] (view).
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A reversal of “Meet the Parents:” instead of a daughter bringing home a liberal boyfriend to meet her conservative parents, “The Family Stone” has a son bringing home his conservative girlfriend to meet his liberal parents. But “Meet the Parents” benefits from a really tight focus: the only real characters are Bobby DeNiro and Ben Stiller. “The Family Stone” is all over the place, opening threads that it won’t close, and introducing characters sort of from thin air. And the movie needs some kind of award for the deaf gay guy with his black lover; that’s like, what, nine tokens crammed into two characters? “The Family Stone” has one brilliant scene, in which the girlfriend just keeps cramming her foot deeper and deeper into her mouth at dinner. The rest of the movie is so largely forgettable that I can’t be bothered to keep writing about it.
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