Family Stone premiere like a reunion
From Michael Cidoni

LOS ANGELES—There was holiday spirit to spare as the cast of “The Family Stone” seemed to do more hugging of each other than mugging for the red-carpet media. “It’s like a family reunion because the whole entire cast is like a family to me,” 9-year-old co-star Savannah Stehlin told at the Tuesday night screening. “But the lights and cameras — it’s so unusual for a family reunion!”
“It was alchemy,” star Sarah Jessica Parker explained. “You know, people just really liked each other. We spent all our time off-camera together, we enjoy being with one another. I think we loved watching each another work.” Parker’s fans appeared to love watching her on the arrivals line, with her entrance generating the sort of cheers usually reserved for box-office heavyweights. And Parker, 40, did look every bit the movie star in an elegant taupe Oscar de la Renta gown.
“The Family Stone,” opening Dec. 16, spins around the annual holiday gathering of a New England family: the Stones. Parker plays Meredith, the outsider and fiancee of a Stone son. Her crisp, controlling demeanour doesn’t sit well with the bohemian Stones. Diane Keaton, Craig T. Nelson, Dermot Mulroney, Claire Danes and Rachel McAdams also star.
The film marked Parker’s first job since her smash sitcom “Sex and the City” finished its first run last year. After six years primarily on the tube, the transition back to the big screen proved an easy one.