The Family Stone

Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker) is Meredith's anxious, bumbling and tightly wound girlfriend, who accompanies Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration. She finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life, and her strained attempts to fit in prove disastrous. The film follows the Christmas holiday misadventures of the Stone family, who welcome Meredith into their fold with a mix of hostility and affection.