Customer Reviews
A different kind of Xmas Family gathering - By: Klaus Meyer, 06 Dec 2007 
What happens when the son brings home for X-mas a girl he wants to marry & the family thinks her utterly unsuitable for him & the family? Well this movie answers your question.
Legendary & Oscar winning Diane Keaton as Sybil Stone is the outspoken matriarch, wo survived a bout of breast cancer & has recently falllen ill again, keeps the family together & presides over it.
Sarah Jessica Parker as Meredith Morton is the stiff businesswoman & control-freak girlfriend with a throat-clearing tick who annoys the members of the Stone family. Sarah Jessica Parker may have risen to stardom as one Carrie Bradshaw in the award-winning Sex & the City, but the actress proves her versatility as an unsympathetic character in this movie.
As usual during a Family X-mas a lot of alll year hidden family trouble comes up & is exposed. Partly it is quite funny, partly annoying & partly over-done: does the gay son have to cover as well the handicaped (deaf) & the radicial bit (partner is a black American)?
But still it is entertaining & funny & emotional. I like the second Xmas reunioon after Mother Stone has passed away. The photograph showing Sybil Stone pregnant with her baby-daughter Amy, which Meredith gives to everyone as a Christmas present, is an original photograph of Diane Keaton & is very very very nice feature of this movie.
