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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 7:24 am
I saw this movie yesterday with my DD. We both loved it. I thought it was going to be more of a comedy after seeing previews, but it isn't. Have tissues ready for this movie.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 7:28 am
Apparently beware of this movie if you have breast cancer issues. I found the following post on a breast cancer message board: quote:I went to see the movie "The Family Stone" last night, thinking it was a comedy, as it was advertised. I was in for a shock. It was revealed that Diane Keaton's character was dying. There was an extremely unnecessary scene where she exposes her mastectomy scar to her husband as she is crying and afraid to die. Then, at the end of the movie, she is dead! Being a woman who is going through this, I was devestated. Not only was I misled by the coming attractions that this was a "comedy", breast cancer was portrayed as a DEATH SENTENCE! I DO NOT recommend this movie to ANYONE who has been affected by breast cancer in any way.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 8:02 am
Oh my! I would have never guessed from the previews at all. I even watched a 'behind the scenes' show on ET about it and no clue.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 8:15 am
well, now i don't want to go see it. i wanted the funny movie that i saw on the trailer and previews!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 9:49 am
Thanks for the warning, Colordeagua. Same thing happened to me many years ago after a death in the family. Some of the family went to a movie to cheer up, and it turned out to be about funerals and cemeteries!
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 1:19 pm
The movie had many funny parts though. The scene that Color posted about was very touching, at least to me. Diane Keaton's character was in bed with her husband. The scar was shown when she put his hand on it and before they made love. Yes, she had been crying before that wanting reassurance from her husband that they would all be okay without her. This was her second go-around with cancer and she knew it would be her last Christmas with all of her family.
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 2:33 pm
I saw this yesterday and liked it. All movies have stuff in them that you don't know about before-hand. The way all the children and dad reacted to the mom's diagnosis was touching and the end was very real. It was heartbreaking, but done in a true to life way. The mom didn't want to tell her kids until after Christmas, they of course figured it out first. The present they all received for Christmas and the ensuing Christmas activities were touching.
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Monday, December 19, 2005 - 6:48 am
Same thing happened to me along time ago. A friend of mine had lost her mother to cancer so me and some friends took her to see Fried Green Tomatoes. Of course it had that gut wrenching scene where the mom died of cancer. Won't forget that day.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, December 19, 2005 - 3:39 pm
<punches breast cancer in its' nose> take that stupid breast cancer 
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Westtexan
Member
07-16-2004
| Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - 9:45 pm
I just saw this movie this afternoon. All in all, it was good. Several funny parts and a few that made me weepy. I was bothered by something though. On an interview, Sarah Jessica Parker talks about how she plays this unlikable character who is socially inept. Yes her character is uptight and nervous but the Stone family was just plain mean to her. Here was a guest in their home and most of them did not hide their dislike of her one bit. And they decided they disliked her immediately. There is one scene at the very beginning where one of the sisters was telling the rest of the family how annoying SJP's character is and the family was laughing. (They hadn't met her yet.) I thought is was very petty. If that had been me talking to my mom making fun of someone, I would have received a harsh lecture. Anyway, that's what bothered me.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 2:08 pm
This movie looked good, I was in the mood for a comedy. I am not too happy with the marketing of this movie. I would have appreciated knowing that this is not a comedy as marketed, but is a drama with a lot of comedy in it. I was crying so hard toward the end that I wanted to wail. We were in a tiny theater at a late showing, there were only about 10 of us in there, so, I had to work really hard to keep all my crying under control. This really was uncomfortable for me and took away a lot of my enjoyment of the movie. It is a good movie. It would have been better had I known it was not a comedy. It is a good story with good acting and a lot of humor.
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Fabnsab
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 8:11 pm
I saw this with a girlfriend. We hoped to see a funny movie about family issues, only to be blindsided with the sadness of DKs character battling and finally succumbing to breast cancer. If we knew the movie would take that turn, we may have lied it better but expecting a lighthearted comedy and egtting what we got, we disliked it very much.
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Sheilaree
Member
07-19-2002
| Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 9:08 am
I agree I thought it was going to be a comedy too, but it was a sad movie, but it was good too. I saw it the day after New Year's Day, I was surprised that it was sold out because it had been in the theater for so long.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 7:38 pm
this conversation reminds me 'steel magnolias'. i had no idea julia roberts' character was going to die; i just had a zillion people tell me i would love it. even with the death, i loved the movie and each time i see it, i am sad for the loss but still laugh like hell at wheezie and the other gal (played by olympia dukakis). great moments, both comedic and tragic... i will never forget the armadillo groom's cake with the gray icing and the pink-red cake inside. it looked like roadkill once it was sliced!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 2:27 pm
Of course after all this time has passed I knew about the mother's battle with cancer, so there were no surprises in that way. I enjoyed the great cast of actors who did a wonderful job. I've never seen Sarah Jessica Parker in anything before, she is fun to watch. However, Clair Danes rules. And what can one say about Diane Keaton...she shines!
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 2:56 pm
My husband and I watched this movie earlier today and we both liked it. I, of course, cried like a baby through most it. It was a really touching story with excellent acting by the whole cast. I adored Craig T. Nelson in this movie as well as Diane Keaton - such talent!
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, June 12, 2006 - 9:06 am
I watched this movie last night and loved it. I like movies where I can laugh and I cry. I did think the treatment of Sarah Jessica Parker's character by the family was a little overboard, but the scene at the dinner table when she was talking about homosexuality was great, expecially the characters of Diane Keaton and Craig T. Nelson was great. I think Steel Magnolias did the best job ever of comic relief. That was probably the hardest I've ever cried during a movie based based on fiction.
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