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THE FAMILY STONE Dermot Mulroney brings uptight fiancée Sarah Jessica Parker to meet his zany family: irascible mom Diane Keaton, peacemaker dad Craig T. Nelson, mean-spirited sister Rachel McAdams, wise pothead brother Luke Wilson, pregnant sister Elizabeth Reazer and, in an orgy of political correctness, brother Ty Giordano, who is deaf, gay and has a black boyfriend with whom he's adopting a child. Writer-director Thomas Bezucha has a deep understanding of family dynamics: how fear and loneliness turn into anger, how long familiarity lets siblings change moods in seconds while bewildering bystanders. Ultimately, though, characters couple and uncouple romantically with the ease of railroad cars, and a thought-provoking, potentially unique movie turns into a mushy blob of wish-fulfillment. 102 minutes.
• PG-13: Some sexual content including dialogue, and drug references.
I thought the film studio may have hired a fake deaf actor...but I just found a real deaf actor. Not need to boycott the film...
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