Composer
Michael Giacchino (The Incredibles, Lost, Alias) has crafted a light, sentimental, and wholly appropriate score for director
Thomas Bezucha's holiday dramedy,
The Family Stone. Utilizing traditional orchestral arrangements, he approaches the season tastefully, allowing the two yuletide standards, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "Cossack Dancers" from the
Nutcracker Suite, to be the sole representatives for that most wonderful -- yet relentlessly trumpeted though tinsel-strewn shopping-mall speakers -- time of the year.