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Town and Country (2001)
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Reviews Counted:89
Fresh:12
Rotten:77
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: Afflicted with extensive re-editing and re-writing, this sex comedy feels confusingly choppy. Also, the main characters are so wealthy and privileged that it's difficult to feel sympathy for their problems.
Theatrical Release:Apr 27, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $6,275,248
Synopsis: Ellie and Porter Stoddard appear to be the perfect couple. Ellie (Diane Keaton) is a successful designer, Porter (Warren Beatty) a high-powered architect, living in the lap of luxury on Fifth... Ellie and Porter Stoddard appear to be the perfect couple. Ellie (Diane Keaton) is a successful designer, Porter (Warren Beatty) a high-powered architect, living in the lap of luxury on Fifth Avenue with their wonderful children and various foreigners wandering through their home. Off they jet to Paris to celebrate their 25th anniversary with their best friends, Griffin (Garry Shandling) and Mona (Goldie Hawn). But upon their return to New York, the idyllic life disappears when Mona catches Griffin having an affair, setting off a trail of suspicion and betrayal among the foursome. While Porter tries to downplay his fling with a cellist named Alex (Nastassja Kinski), he gets himself stuck in hilarious entanglements with Jenna Elfman and Andie MacDowell--and a much more serious one with his oldest and dearest friend, Mona. Peter Chelsom's romantic comedy, cowritten by and featuring the great Buck Henry, is a lighthearted romp through New York City, Sun Valley, Mississippi, Paris, and the Hamptons. The terrific cast also includes Charlton Heston and Marian Seldes as MacDowell's dangerously bizarre parents, but it is Shandling and Beatty who steal the show. Shandling provides constant comic relief as he struggles with his newfound sexuality while Beatty hems and haws his way through a series of increasingly ridiculous situations, able to do with a glance and a grin what most actors can't do in a lifetime. [More]
Starring: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Andie MacDowell, Goldie Hawn
Starring: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Andie MacDowell, Goldie Hawn, Garry Shandling
Director: Peter Chelsom
Director: Peter Chelsom
Producer: Fred Roos, Simon Fields, Andrew Karsch
Studio: New Line Cinema
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Reviews for Town and Country
Ejemplo claro de lo que no se debe hacer a la hora de escribir un guión.
So many idiotic complications, implausible reversals, loose ends and flat-out buffoonery that the good will of the opening is utterly lost.
As long as you don't think about it too much, it will make you laugh.
the nondescript direction and slipshod film editing... fail to draw out any of the conflicts in an interesting way
The script is this film's weakest link - it's telling that most of the (few) laughs come from old-fashioned physical slapstick and the sight of Beatty in a bear suit.
After all the expense and time New Line spent on the film, it's likely to be forgotten by moviegoers within a month.
Feels like a ragged assemblage of parts from at least two entirely different movies.
Instead of humorous, this film is obtuse. Instead of romantic, it's boorish. Do yourself a favor and just pass on this bloated piece of gunk and rent some of the earlier films from director Woody Allen, which "Country" so woefully tries to emulate.
"From the beginning, the making of this movie was a blueprint for disaster. It's a feeble, badly edited, slapstick sex comedy."
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