Everett (Dermot Mulroney), with plans of proposing, brings his girlfriend Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker) to meet his bohemian Connecticut family at Christmas. Straitlaced Meredith, feeling she needs backup, asks her sister Julie (Claire Danes) to come along.

Hoping to win the approval of her boyfriend’s parents (played by Keaton and Craig T. Nelson) and the rest of the Stone family, instead Meredith succeeds only in highlighting her uptight personality. Before the holiday is over secrets are revealed and relationships unravel while new ones are formed.

I don't think anyone is prepared for "That's you and me, kid" this year, but we will do it together.