Aid and Trade

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Movie description family stone: destined to be a christmas classic, thomas bezuchas dazzling dramedy, the family stone, manages to be both warmhearted and sentimental while possessing a razor-sharp hilarious mean streak. The fairly conventional story centers on sarah jessica parkers uptight career woman, meredith, and her run-in with the eponymous stone family (one wonders which came first, the title or the script). With her permanently pursed lips and severe bun, sjp looks and acts the anti-carrie bradshaw here as, armed with cell phone and business suit collection, she gears up to meet her fiances oddball family, a tight-knit, colorful clan who border on bohemian. Matriarch sybil (diane keaton) and patriarch kelly (craig t. Nelson) are a loving couple whose diverse children are affectionate and respectful. When merediths humorless aura infects the homestead, it is mom sybil and sister amy (rachel mcadams), who sense a romantic mismatch and attack her venomously, sparking a tete-a-tete-a-tete between three feisty females. While this battle royal is waged, dramatic subplots brew in the background, one involving the deaf and gay brother thads desire to adopt a child, and the other a rather devastating secret on the verge of exposure. It is in the emergence of meredith’s refreshingly calm and breezy younger sister, julie (claire danes), entering the film with a dramatic fall from a bus exit, that brings all conflict to a head.