No sooner has Dan driven the kids to Poppy and Nana's house for the annual family get-together in off-season Rhode Island than he's meeting cute with Juliette Binoche in a secondhand bookstore.

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In an often disorienting mixture of rages, flashbacks, speeches to the camera, and nods to other movies, the story rolls and stammers along, drawing the family into a Christmas get-together but denying them more than a glimpse of the harmony that we might, by tradition, expect.

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By promoting models like family drug courts, family-based treatment, and family-centered reentry programs, we can help families stay together and get better, together.

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Implementing three healthy family habits--eating dinner together, making sure they get enough sleep, and limiting TV--may help.

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When I was discharged from the hospital, friends and family from all over came together to help me by making giant get-well cards from various schools or having friends make dinner for us on a weekly basis.

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Every other year, hundreds of African-American descendants of Hal Rand get together at a different location for a massive family reunion.

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It was a get-together of friends, all staying on a ranch in the region that the family of one of them owned for generations.

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