Inventing the Abbotts

Inventing the Abbotts

1997 · 110 min · EN · R · 6.3 (263 votes)
Dir. Pat O'Connor · Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Connelly, Billy Crudup, Joanna Going, Kathy Baker · Music Michael Kamen

When you want it all but can't have it, there's only one way to handle life... invent it.

DramaRomance

In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break the hearts of rich young women. But sensitive Doug has a real romance with Pamela, which Jacey and the Abbott patriarch, Lloyd, both frown upon.

VIBE

A dreamy, sun-drenched summer romance tinged with melancholy. It captures the intoxicating rush of first love and the sting of social divides, set against a backdrop of idyllic, yet troubled, small-town life.

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