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Title: The Family With No Manners
Review: Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney, as wooden as usual) brings his girlfriend, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, home for Christmas to meet his family. He wants to ask for the family stone (which his mother promised him) to ask her to marry him. Diane Keaton (his mom)keeps referring to it as a wedding ring, but it's clearly an engagement ring. In any case, everyone in his family (except his brother Ben) is extremely hateful towards her, causing her to call her sister (Claire Danes) for moral support and move into a hotel for the duration.The whole thing about the bedrooms is silly. Why can't the two brothers share? Why can't the two girls share? Why is the gay deaf son with a hearing man? That's not likely. Half the time the family uses sign language, the other half, he's somehow expected to read lips when someone is not even facing him.[...]a waste of two hours.
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