The Stone Family - No Engagement!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Stone Family - No Engagement! |
| Original title | The Family Stone |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Bezucha |
| script | Thomas Bezucha |
| production |
Michael London Jennifer Ogden |
| music | Michael Giacchino |
| camera | Jonathan Brown |
| cut | Jeffrey Ford |
| occupation | |
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The Stone Family - No Engagement! is an American comedy film from 2005. The director and screenwriter was Thomas Bezucha . Production costs amounted to about 17 million US dollars . The film was shown in German cinemas on December 15, 2005.
action
The New Yorker Meredith Morton wants during the Christmas holidays, the family of her fiance Everett Stone know. Before they even arrive at his parents' house, Everett's youngest sister Amy makes fun of Meredith and makes fun of her because of her quirks. Meredith's unapproachable manner and her ability to constantly fool around and hit the wrong note make it difficult for her to win the sympathy of the Stones.
Since Meredith doesn't want to share a bed with Everett in his parents' house, she insists on sleeping in a separate room. In short, Amy is forced by her mother Sybil to sleep on the couch in the living room so that Meredith can move into her room. The situation worsens, so that Meredith finally moves into the hotel and, in despair, calls her sister Julie to ask her to come to her. This is welcomed more warmly by the Stones than was previously the case with her sister Meredith.
At the celebratory dinner, the two homosexuals Thad Stone and Patrick Thomas talk about their attempts to adopt a child. Sybil says years ago she wished that all of her sons would become gay and never leave the house. This remark irritates Meredith because she cannot imagine that a mother would wish to have homosexual children because she believes that homosexual children are disadvantaged in relation to others. Unfortunately, her wording sounds like she has prejudice against homosexuals. She becomes entangled in ambiguous remarks until Everett's father Kelly harshly tells her to stop immediately, which means she not only leaves the table but also the house. The attempt to drive away in Everett's car ends in the garden in front of the house because she cannot use the car's automatic gearbox. The family hears the clang and Everett's brother Ben rushes to the aid of the crying Meredith and takes her to a pub to cheer her up.
After a while, Everett and Julie go looking for Meredith and Ben. They get closer and Meredith and Ben have a lot of fun too. When Meredith wakes up in Ben's bed the next morning, she is completely beside herself and thinks she had slept with Ben.
Everett, meanwhile, reluctantly receives his grandmother's engagement ring from his mother. This was promised to him by Sybil years ago, but she doesn't think Meredith is the right woman for her son, which is why she is initially reluctant to pass the ring on to her son. Everett puts the ring on Julie to see if it would fit her, but the ring gets stuck on Julie's finger. When Meredith sees her sister Julie with the ring, Julie is forced to tell her about Everett's proposed marriage proposal.
Meredith also hands out her presents for the Christmas presents. Everyone receives a picture of Sybil, who is pregnant with Amy, in a beautiful setting. Everyone is touched and finally the ice breaks. However, in her excitement in front of the assembled family, Meredith confronts Everett that she does not want to marry him and also confesses her alleged affair with Ben. However, Ben explains that he slept on the floor to let Meredith have the bed. Meredith goes into the kitchen crying and Everett pounces on Ben angrily. There is a mishap in the kitchen with Meredith's breakfast. Amy, Sybil and Meredith all dirty each other, but for the first time they can laugh together at the situation. In the chaos, the ring comes off Julie's finger, she leaves it behind and wants to leave immediately without giving notice. Everett can catch up with her at the bus stop and they arrange to meet for New Year's Eve after a discussion. Meredith and Ben have now also grown closer.
At Christmas the following year, Sybil, who had cancer, passed away. Thad and Patrick have brought their adopted son to the party, to which Meredith and Ben as well as Amy and her boyfriend are already present. Julie and Everett are just walking in the door. Meredith's Christmas present from last year is still hanging on the wall in the living room next to the Christmas tree and shows the photo of Sybil, pregnant with Amy.
characters
Everett Stone
Everett is the oldest of five children of Kelly and Sybil Stone and grew up in their home in Thayer. About 14 months before the start of the action, he meets the Bedford businesswoman Meredith Morton in Hong Kong, who, like him, is looking at the new issues. On the first of the three days shown, he presents his steadfast girlfriend to his family, an unconventional, liberal chaos clan. He asks his mother Sybil about her mother's engagement ring to give to Meredith on the occasion of a proposal. This refuses, however, what Everett brings up. In the meantime, Meredith, who is now staying at the hotel, has requested reinforcements in the form of her sister Julie. Everett falls in love with her while his relationship with Meredith is beginning to crack. Everett shows his sensitive side towards the end of the film when his mother, after giving him the ring, told him that she was sick and that there was nothing to be done about it, not even by getting married. The last scene shows the next Christmas, when he and Julie make a couple.
Meredith Morton
Meredith, a conservative, bigoted, rather uptight business woman from Bedford, is taken by her partner Everett Stone to the tranquil Thayer for Christmas, where she is introduced to his family, although she already knows his sister Amy, but she does not say a word at a meeting should have said. From the first minute, Meredith believes everyone hates her and causes a stir as she refuses to share a bed with Everett. Since she feels unwanted, she moves to the hotel after the first night, which is also due to a verbal attack by Amy. She also asks her sister Julie to come. After a few unsuccessful statements at the dinner table and after Kelly yelled at her, Meredith tries to flee, but hits a tree. Everett's brother Ben forks her up and drives her to a small American bar, the so-called "O'Melley's", where they drink together. There she also invites Amy's first sex partner, Brad Stevenson, for tomorrow. The following morning she wakes up in Ben's bed and thinks she slept with him. After she presented everyone with her present, a picture of the pregnant Sybil, she confronts Everett with the supposed events in front of the assembled crew. She accuses the whole family of speaking badly of them and wants to escape it by putting the prepared "Strata", a family specialty, in the oven. However, Sybil opens the door when Meredith removes the food from the refrigerator and the food unloads onto Meredith. She tearfully asks Amy and Sybil what is so great about them. Amy soon slips in the puddle and all 3 women are dirty on the floor. Now they can laugh together for the first time. A year later, her demeanor seems more relaxed and she is with Ben.
Sybil Stone
Sybil Stone is the mother of Ben, Everett, Amy, Susanna and the deaf Thad and the wife of Kelly. Many years ago she beat breast cancer. However, both breasts were removed from her. Now the cancer is back and Sybil knows that she has no chance this time, but she would like to tell her children that after Christmas, which does not quite work because Susanna and Ben notice it beforehand. When Everett was with the perfect girl in her eyes, she promised her son that she would give him her mother's engagement ring if he wanted to marry his dream woman, because she wanted this woman to wear this ring. However, the prudish Meredith is a thorn in the side of the otherwise very tolerant, unconventional Sybil. She knows he's making a mistake and that she won't be there. Again and again you see Sybil thoughtfully and with tears in his eyes, which changes suddenly when someone enters the room. Sybil has probably died a year later, but is shown pregnant in a picture hanging on the wall.
Reviews
"A well-played, but only superficially entertaining family film, whose comedic concept hardly works and which sacrifices its melodramatic approaches to a pre-Christmas wellbeing."
“What begins like a variant of“ My Bride, Her Father and I ”is increasingly turning into a maudlin, politically hyper-correct ballad about love, tolerance and family values. A shaky, but entertaining balancing act between lard, slapstick and short, astute snapshots of the human psyche. "
"An ensemble that will make you kneel down plays' Mrs. Parker and their vicious circle of enemies'. Only the conciliatory ending clearly falls off against the Zoff scenes. "
Awards
Sarah Jessica Parker was nominated for the Film Award Globe Golden nominated. Craig T. Nelson, Diane Keaton and Rachel McAdams were nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for The Stone Family - No engagement! Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ https://www.kino.de/film/die-familie-stone-verloben-verboten-2005/ Trailer and portrait of the film at www.kino.de
- ↑ The Stone Family - No Engagement! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 10, 2017 .
- ↑ TV feature film
- ↑ cinema.de