Of Good Stock
"It's like being at home," the couple next to me remarked after the lights came up for intermission. They were referring to the domestic tensions of the Stockton sisters and their beaus. Set in the Stockton family home in Cape Cod, Melissa Ross 's Of Good Stock sees the three sisters, Jess ( Jennifer Mudge ), Amy ( Alicia Silverstone ) and Celia ( Heather Lind ), reuniting for Jess's 41st birthday. Jess and her husband, Fred ( Kelly AuCoin ), are hosting the gathering; Amy brings along her fiancé, Josh ( Greg Keller ), and Celia's new boyfriend, Hunter ( Nate Miller ), also joins the party. The Stockton sisters have unfinished business with one another, and with the legacy left by their now deceased parents. They struggle to come to grips with living up to the "stock" of their parents. But it's not just a weekend of reckoning for the sisters. As Hunter (the most outsider of the outsiders) observes, families are complex. He offers that a fami...