Here's an excerpt:
But don’t misread The Family Stone as simply a red state attack on blue state America. It’s the Stones who are politically correct liberals and though their hostility to Meredith (pointing out and exaggerating her conservatism) is funny, it’s also cruel. Bezucha knows that’s the way liberals can be. (“The left are really great haters,” Pauline Kael wrote when taking exception to Mike Leigh’s class comedy High Hopes.) Although Meredith’s prissiness may deserve a little derision, she’s merely a fledgling version of the obnoxiousness that the Stone family has mastered. (When Meredith says “I don’t care what you think.” A grinning Stone answers, “Yes, you do.”) Meredith would like to join the Stones with their Waspy class confidence, but she is an unnerving reflection of what the Stone family doesn’t like in itself: insecurity.
If the Stones are as bad as Megan says they are, it's not likely that the writer-director is really offering them and their way of looking at the world as an ideal. White may not be right either, but if the film can be interpreted in such different ways, it's probably deeper and more conflicted than Megan says.
Satire can also be affectionate or loving about those it needles. Maybe that's what's going on. In any case it would be good at this point to hear from people who've seen the film, as the rest of us don't have much basis for informed judgment.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? was high drama about liberal intolerance. But even if it exposed a little hypocracy, it's the hypocritical liberals that are the heros.
I did see it with the expectation of a holiday comedy. I was really pissed at the blatant homosexual plot.
It is not a deep movie. It is simply gay bs.