Jon Hamm on the debate over The Family Stone’s worst film
Meredith finally gets it right when she gives all the Stone family members a framed black and white photo of Sybil taken when she was pregnant with Amy.
Although the image was edited to make Sybil look pregnant, it was from Keaton’s own archive and was taken by her mother when she was 27 Dorothy Deanne.
“That moved me more than anything else in the film,” Keaton told Girl.com.au, “because for me that picture was about my mother.”
She explained, “I had the strangest feeling when I looked at that picture – and I hate that picture – but I felt like, you know, the best acting thing I’ve ever done in my entire life is the portrait that my mother did. The whole motherhood thing and, you know, your sense of honor towards your mother had a huge resonance for me in that moment, and I just thought that Tom Bezucha captured that in such a beautiful way, like life.” continues… It’s mine.” My favorite moment in any film I’ve ever been in is my mother’s photo of me, because she took it.