Debbie Schlussel: Movie to Skip: "The Family Stone"
If you are smart, you will skip "The Family Stone," a dreadful movie about a "loving," hippie-style left-wing family fighting with their son's mean, conservative, uptight girlfriend, played by Sarah Jessica Parker.
The pot-smoking family consists of, among others, all the politically correct elements: a swearing, way-too-sexually-open mother; a gay, deaf son and his Black boyfriend (and their Black child)--the movie not me) makes a big deal about this mixed race relationship and the race of the baby; and a film editor son who lives in Berkeley.
Painful to watch. I wish I'd walked out. Wasted time from my life never to be redeemed. This "movie" was just plain awful.
Posted by Debbie on December 16, 2005 02:01 PM to Debbie Schlussel