
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Thomas Bezucha&s dazzling dramedy manages to be both warm-hearted & sentimental while possessing a razor-sharp hilarious mean streak The story centers on Sarah Jessica Parker&s uptight career woman Meredith & her run-in with the eponymous Stone family With her permanently pursed lips & severe bun SJP looks & acts the anti-Carrie Bradshaw here as armed with cell phone & business suit collection she gears up to meet her fiance&s oddball family; a tight-knit colourful clan who border on bohemian Matriarch Sybil (Diane Keaton) & patriarch Kelly (Craig T Nelson) are a loving couple whose diverse children are clearly intimate & respectful progeny When Meredith&s humorless aura infects the homestead it is mom Sybil & sister Amy (Rachel Mc Adams) sensing a romance mismatch & attack her venomously sparking a tete-a-tete-a-tete between three fiesty females While this Battle Royale wages dramatic subplots brew in the backdrop one involving the deaf & gay brother Thad&s desire to adopt a child & the other a rather devastating secret on the verge of exposure It is in the emergence of Meredith&s refreshingly calm & breezy younger sister Julie (Claire Danes) entering the film with a dramatic fall from a bus exit that brings all conflict to a head