The Family Stone
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The oldest son is bringing his girlfriend home to meet his family for the first time. Gee, I wonder what's going to happen?

And by the way, it's so nice to see just an ordinary family in a movie again...you know, completely white, rich, unbelievably thin and handsome/beautiful, right down to the little girl and the unborn child...with the deaf gay guy dating an african american to round it off. Yeah, right.

Anyway. Mildly amusing family get together over christmas, big buildup to the denoument where people realize who they're really in love with, and of course the emotional scenes because it can't just be about romance, Mom also has to be dying of cancer.

If you want to see an incredibly romantic movie about a lot of real people and love and christmas and everything...watch Love Actually for the umpteenth time, and give this one a miss.