Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 12/16/2005(USA)
Release Date: 10/17/2006
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
A woman meets her future in-laws and discovers they don't much care for her in this
comedy from writer and director
Thomas Bezucha.
Everett Stone (
Dermot Mulroney) is a successful young businessman who is dating
Meredith Morton (
Sarah Jessica Parker), and has asked her to spend Christmas with his family, with plans to ask his mother
Sybil (
Diane Keaton) for the titular family wedding band and propose to
Meredith on Christmas.
Meredith is more than a bit nervous about meeting
Everett's folks, and things only get worse when they arrive --
Meredith is by her nature straight-laced and a bit uptight around strangers, while
Sybil and family patriarch
Kelly (
Craig T. Nelson) are free-thinkers who, except for
Everett, have raised a family of cheerfully rebellious children, most notably younger daughter
Amy (
Rachel McAdams), older brother
Ben (
Luke Wilson), and adopted sibling
Thad (
Tyrone Giordano, who is both deaf and gay.
Meredith and the Stone family do not get along well at first, especially
Sybil, who is appalled at the prospect of
Everett giving
Meredith the family's heirloom wedding ring; in dire need of moral support,
Meredith asks her younger sister,
Julie (
Claire Danes), to join her for Christmas with the Stones. However, the plan runs into a snag when
Everett's head is turned by pretty
Julie, and
Meredith finds herself on the receiving end of attention from slobby
Ben.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
