Synopsis
It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.
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Cast
- Alfred MolinaEdy Rodriguez
- Elizabeth PeñaAnna Rodriguez
- Freddy RodríguezJesse Rodriguez
- Luis GuzmánJohnny
- Jay HernandezOzzy
- John LeguizamoMauricio Rodriguez
- Debra MessingSarah Rodriguez
- Vanessa FerlitoRoxanna Rodriguez
- Melonie DiazMarissa
- Ramses JimenezFernando
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
The troubles are broad, the plot twists giant, and the performances cheery in this carol to ethnic pride in Chicago's traditionally Latino Humboldt Park. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The performers breathe real life into the characters, starting with Elizabeth Pena and Alfred Molina. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
This unassuming and unexpectedly moving picture set in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood is a sugarplum-and-sofrito affair centering on the Rodriguez household. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The situations tend toward contrivance, but the atmosphere is easygoing and the actors seem relaxed even when everyone at the family table is yelling. - 70
Variety
So "The Family Stone" becomes "The Family Rodriguez," and to their credit, the able performers wring as much mileage as they can from such familiar material. - 63
ReelViews
Like fruitcake, movies like this are ubiquitous at this time of the year but rarely are they devoured with great relish or enthusiasm. - 58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Director Alfredo De Villa doesn't play it for the kind of knockabout comedy so often seen in these films (like the shrill hit "Four Christmases"). - 50
Village Voice
The cast is appealing enough, though, and those looking for seasonal warm fuzzies can find them, as predictably touching as a muddled-through "Auld Lang Syne."
