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Inventing the Abbotts (1997)

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Reviews Counted:24

Fresh:8

Rotten:16

Average Rating:5.4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: In the placid, potboiler-perfect 1950s hamlet of Haley, Illinois, life revolves around the wealthy and powerful Abbott family, which boasts three strapping brunette daughters in addition to its... In the placid, potboiler-perfect 1950s hamlet of Haley, Illinois, life revolves around the wealthy and powerful Abbott family, which boasts three strapping brunette daughters in addition to its other assets. On the other side of the proverbial tracks live two fatherless brothers--one idolizes the Abbotts, while the other seeks to destroy the family by systematically deflowering and debasing the sisters. [More]

Starring: Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly

Starring: Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Joanna Going, Will Patton, Kathy Baker, Shawn Hatosy

Director: Pat O'Connor

Director: Pat O'Connor
Screenwriter: Ken Hixon
Producer: Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Janet Meyers
Composer: Michael Kamen

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Offers an inventive and engaging exploration of emotional intelligence.

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Would be a lot more fun were it a trashy Troy Donahue-Diane McBain vehicle ground out by Warner Bros. in 1960.

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If looked at in the right perspective, as a soap and not as the serious drama it pretends to be, this is quite diverting, if emotionally hollow, melodrama.

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Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
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In the end, it adds up to nothing more than a humorless, forgettable nostalgia piece with carefully re-created costumes and settings from the Eisenhower years.

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Judith Egerton
Judith Egerton
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It is rare to find a film that treats teenagers and young adults as real people who think for themselves, and own up to their mistakes

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02/27/01
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

Cast of newcomers is appealing, but this small-town melodrama is so old-fashioned and out-of-touch with contemporary youth that it feels as if it were made the same time that its story is set, in 1957.

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