shlevine Review of The Family Stone

The Family Stone (2005)

holes so big you could drive a bus through them

[17 December 2005]

This wasn't the most excruciating movie I've seen this year--far from it--but it is nevertheless pretty awful. No spoilers herein, and I won't recap the story. I'd prefer to comment on the one post that praises the movie's accurate portrayal of a normal gay couple. It is, indeed, accurate, and heartwarming too. Yeah, it's a little over the top to have the gay couple be interracial AND hearing impaired ("What, no facial scarring?"). And it is heartwarming to see the family rally around its gay member and his partner. I'm aghast at the post from the narrow-minded person from Jacksonville who says this is another attempt to promote the gay agenda but, alas, such is America in the enlightened new millennium. She must have crapped cement at Rent.