it's back.......Mable's Movie Review

We wanted to watch a movie that was "laugh out loud funny" so we chose The Family Stone. I may have laughed a couple of times, but mostly I cried and cried. This is not really a comedy, it's one of those movies that acts like a comedy, they bill it as a comedy, the trailers show the really funny parts, and then you watch it and find it's really a 3 kleenex tear-jerker. I was not prepared for that, I wanted funny! Having said that, I did like this movie. Sarah Jessica Parker did a good job not being Carrie and the rest of the cast was great doing what they were supposed to do: act mean, be beautiful, be sympathetic, be tragic. The lead male was Dylan McDermott? Dermot Mulroney? Honestly, one of them has to change their name. The guy from My Best Friend's Wedding. He was a little weak. The two leads switched loyalties so easily, I just wasn't buying the whole, now we're one big happy family thing. I love Claire Danes and have since My So-Called Life. She is on my short list of favorite actresses. If not for the breast cancer element, I would probably not still be thinking about the film. That part made me cry my eyes out. I can't handle Moms dying and missing their kid's lives. They could barely get the Christmas Tree decorated without their Mom.
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