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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.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] sexuality and language

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Comedies

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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Every bit as disappointing as the advance word suggested.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
04/27/01
Philip Booth
Philip Booth
Orlando Weekly

Stuff gets thrown into the mix literally from several directions, in the vain hope that the story will organically cohere.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
04/27/01
Gene Seymour
Gene Seymour
Newsday
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Feels like a ragged assemblage of parts from at least two entirely different movies.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
04/27/01
Jonathan Foreman
Jonathan Foreman
New York Post
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There is a lot to like in this stab at the rat-tat-tat lunacy of 1940s-era screwball comedies.

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04/27/01
Rene Rodriguez
Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald

Desperately wants to be a Woody Allen movie.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
04/27/01
Louis B. Hobson
Louis B. Hobson
Jam! Movies

As long as you don't think about it too much, it will make you laugh.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
04/27/01
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

An unfunny, unfocused mess.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
04/27/01
Eric Harrison
Eric Harrison
Houston Chronicle
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Urbane, observant ... and read with expertise by its once-in-a-lifetime cast.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
04/27/01
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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It should have quietly skulked off to the Hamptons, where it couldn't annoy the nonprivileged with its pointlessness and irrelevancy.

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04/27/01
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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Generally fine performances and isolated hilarious moments drift unanchored through a film that never gels into a solid form.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
04/27/01
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

Glossy, vapid and having nothing to do with reality.

Full Review Source: CNN.com | comment Comment
04/27/01
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
CNN.com
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Fails to utilize the full potential of its high-watt cast.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
04/27/01
Michael Tunison
Michael Tunison
Boxoffice Magazine

Stands as one of the season's few genuinely adult comedies.

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04/27/01
Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
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A disjointed comedy that's, quite simply, not very funny.

Full Review Source: Norman Transcript | comment Comment
04/27/01
Jim Chastain
Jim Chastain
Norman Transcript

It's a shame that so little works.

Full Review Source: Movie Habit | comment Comment
04/27/01
Marty Mapes
Marty Mapes
Movie Habit

Stilted, inaccessible, undernourished, surprisingly vulgar and curiously creepy.

Full Review Source: Fresno Bee | comment Comment
04/27/01
Donald Munro
Donald Munro
Fresno Bee

Almost seems like it was improvised on the spot, shot quickly and then shipped off to the developing lab within hours.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
04/27/01
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

A movie without much of a sense of logic or humor.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
04/27/01
Rasmi Simhan
Rasmi Simhan
Kansas City Star

Its contrived machinations are far too obvious.

Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | comment Comment
04/27/01
Jack Garner
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

It's pretty bad.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
04/27/01
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
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