The Family Stone Revisited |
The sounds coming from a recent sold-out Brooklyn screening of The Family Stone may suggest it’s more horror movie than holiday film. “Some people would say it is,” writer-director Thomas Bezucha tells Vanity Fair’s Savannah Walsh with a knowing smirk on the occasion of the film’s 20th anniversary. “In my mind, it was always a musical comedy.” But Bezucha also knows the movie has a reputation for ripping the rug out from under its audience: “It was a bait and switch, for sure,” he says of the film’s marketing. “I have definitely heard stories about people who lost people or were in the throes of things and saw that movie. So I’m sorry if we tricked anybody, but it was with the best of intentions.”
Elsewhere in HWD, Eve Batey chats with the director behind Netflix’s widely watched (and controversial) Sean Combs doc; Rebecca Ford explains why the Oscars are ditching ABC for YouTube; Erin Vanderhoof searches for meaning in the first trailer for Brett Ratner’s Melania Trump documentary; and Madonna and Guy Ritchie reunite. |
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