The Family Stone

15 December 2005103 min, ,

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Plot:

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.

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Cast & Crew

Dermot Mulroney

Everett Stone

Diane Keaton

Sybil Stone

Claire Danes

Julie Morton

Brian J. White

Patrick Thomas

Elizabeth Reaser

Susannah Stone Trousdale

Paul Schneider

Brad Stevenson

Savannah Stehlin

Elizabeth Trousdale

Jamie Kaler

John Trousdale

Production

Mindy Marin

Co-Producer

Sound

Editing

Steve Bowen

Digital Color Timer

Ben Estrada

Digital Colorist

Jim Passon

Color Timer

Costume & Make-Up

Shay Cunliffe

Costume Design

Matthew W. Mungle

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Art

T.K. Kirkpatrick

Art Direction

Sally Thornton

Set Designer

Jane Ann Stewart

Production Design

Fun Facts of Movie

  • Luke Wilson chipped a tooth while filming this movie and asked Diane Keaton to recommend a dentist. Keaton decided to play a joke on him and, when he called the number she had given him, it was actually the number to a psychologist.
  • Writer and director Thomas Bezucha put the nine cast members playing the Stones through several weeks of rehearsal so they would bond well enough off-camera to convincingly portray a family. This included a crash course in American Sign Language, as eight of the nine characters would be called upon to utilize American Sign Language in the script to either communicate with or interpret for the character of Thaddeus. While some critics, and the cast members themselves, pointed out that their American Sign Language use was sub-par, it was actually a realistic portrayal of a hearing family’s use of the language, which is often perfunctory at best.
  • Rachel McAdams worked with both Wilson brothers in two different movies at the same year. This movie with Luke Wilson, and in Wedding Crashers (2005) with Owen Wilson.
  • During the film’s Christmas Eve montage, as Thaddeus and Patrick stroll hand-in-hand toward the inn, Patrick signs in American Sign Language that the evening sky looks beautiful, to which Thaddeus responds “No, you’re beautiful.”
  • Because of the dim lighting and indistinct camera angle, audiences frequently assume it is Susanna’s daughter Elizabeth who has fallen asleep on Susanna’s lap at the beginning of the Christmas Eve montage. It is, in fact, Amy, which prompts Kelly to say, “She’s nice like this, isn’t she?” in response to Amy’s lack of accustomed edge as she peacefully slumbers.
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