Do they have their own story?
Cancer functions as holiday-family reconciliation and grief preparation.
The Family Stone
2005 · 20th Century Fox · Theatrical
FAIL
Summary
Everett Stone brings his new girlfriend home for Christmas, where she meets his outspoken family. The holiday gathering is shadowed by matriarch Sybil's cancer diagnosis.
Why it fails
Are they allowed to live?
Death is foreshadowed as warm family-memory closure.
Does the medical reality hold up?
Recurrence and prognosis are under-detailed.