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Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Directed by Pat O'Connor
“When you want it all but can't have it, there's only one way to handle life... invent it.”
Drama, Romance · 1h 50m
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.
Cast
Joaquin Phoenix
Doug Holt
Liv Tyler
Pamela Abbott
Jennifer Connelly
Eleanor Abbott
Billy Crudup
Jacey Holt
Joanna Going
Alice Abbott
Kathy Baker
Helen Holt
Will Patton
Lloyd Abbott
Michael Sutton
Steve
Garrett M. Brown
Webb Crosby
Barbara Williams
Joan Abbott
Alessandro Nivola
Peter Vanlaningham
N
Nicole M. Vassallo
Giggling Girl #1
Crew
- Director
- Pat O'Connor
- Screenplay
- Ken Hixon
- Director of Photography
- Kenneth MacMillan
- Original Music Composer
- Michael Kamen
- Editor
- Ray Lovejoy
- Producer
- Janet Meyers, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer
Details
- Release date
- 1997-04-04
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Fox 2000 Pictures, Imagine Entertainment
- Box office
- $5,926,128