12+1 questions about the movie’s legacy 20 years later, his favorite character to write, working with a deaf consultant, and that infamous dinner scene.

We took a swig of spiked eggnog and ran the gauntlet of the genre like Marv and Harry at the McCallisters, finally arriving at our Top 10 Christmas Movies.

I didn’t love Thomas Bezucha’s 2005 Christmas dramedy The Family Stone when I first saw it. But I’ve come to realize it’s actually one of the great Christmas movies.