The Family Stone
Feel The Love
Country
Production
Budget
$19 000 000
Revenue
$92 884 429
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Michael London, Jennifer Ogden
Operator
Jonathan Brown
Composer
Artist
Jane Ann Stewart, Lori Agostino
Audition
Mindy Marin
Editing
Short description
An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
What's left behind the scenes
- Throughout the film, Diane Keaton skillfully communicates in sign language, a skill she honed since her role in ‘Looking for Mr. Goodbar’ (1977), where she played a teacher for deaf children.
- Writer and director Thomas Bezucha rehearsed with nine actors chosen for the roles of the Stones for several weeks before filming, so they could get to know each other well enough to convincingly portray a family on camera. They also underwent an accelerated course in learning American Sign Language (ASL), as eight of them had to communicate with Tadeusz or translate his statements. And although some critics, as well as members of the film crew, admitted that their command of sign language was below average, the depiction of a middle-class family forced to use sign language for understandable reasons ultimately came across as quite authentic on screen.
- Filming began on February 28, 2005.
- Throughout the film, Diane Keaton skillfully communicates in sign language, a skill she honed since her role in "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" (1977), where she played a teacher for deaf children.
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