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Editorial Review:
Released two years later than originally scheduled, Town & Country was plagued by the kind of negative buzz that few movies recover from. Like the infamous Ishtar, this Warren Beatty-led ensemble comedy is ungainly and erratic, but when it's funny it's quite funny, and the involvement of cowriter Buck Henry makes it a lot smarter than most of what passes for wit in postmillennial comedy. An updated sex farce fueled by modern-day foibles, the movie's also an apologetic valentine from notorious womanizers like Beatty, who, as wealthy Manhattan architect Porter Stoddard, is paying the price for his dalliance with a sexy cellist (Nastassja Kinski). While Porter's wife (Diane Keaton) fumes with suspicion, their best friends Mona (Goldie Hawn) and Griffin (Garry Shandling) wage their own marital warfare after Mona spies Griffin with a gorgeous redhead. Mona shouldn't believe what she sees, but she still has cause to worry.

Porter also has a fling with a ski-bunny psycho (Andie MacDowell) with an obsessively protective father (Charlton Heston), and a store clerk (Jenna Elfman) with a thing for Russian literature. It all leads to comedic acts of contrition, but too many gags are strained or flat; lacking knowledge of its troubled history, you'd still think Town & Country was a puzzle with missing pieces. And yet, these veteran stars somehow pull it together just enough to make it work, and with the stammering Shandling as a standout, the movie boasts a few noteworthy highlights. Heston's a riot (believe it or not), and although Town & Country doesn't fire on all pistons, it's got enough horsepower to suggest it could've been a contender. --Jeff Shannon

Town & Country [Region 2] Reviews:
Its ok...
2009-11-02 - The movie was funny at times but I really did not think it was that good of a movie.. I like Diane Keaton thats the reason why I wanted to see this move..She was great in it but that pretty much it...

This Could Be Warren Beatty's Last Film?
2009-08-11 - That depressing thought should motivate Beatty to make another movie and quick. It's been nearly eight years since this one came out and he's not getting any younger. As if the fact that this film is a crude sex romp that isn't funny or sexy isn't enough consider that it cost over $90 million to make. So many talented people, including Diane Keaton (Beatty's companion for many years), Nastassja Kinski, Andie McDowell, Jenna Elfman, Goldie Hawn, Garry Shandling and Josh Hartnett, are wasted and embarrassed here. (Let's not even mention Charlton Heston's cringe inducing performance which finds him growling like a dragon and chasing Beatty around with a rifle). The film begins with a nude Warren (thankfully covered by a sheet) being serenaded by a nude cellist. He informs us in a useless narration that this isn't his wife and that this will never happen again. Cut to Paris where he and his actual wife (Keaton) are celebrating their anniversary with another married couple (Shandling and Hawn). After the couples return from their vacation Hawn learns that Shandling is cheating on her and files for divorce. Devastated she confides in Keaton who's positive her husband could never do something like that. Guess again since the film tastelessly finds Beatty and Hawn hooking up and shows them having sex on numerous occasions. Warren doesn't stop there though he goes on to romance McDowell, Kinski, and Elfman before finally coming clean to his wife. Not even Jack Nicholson, Warren's good pal, acts this bad in his movies so why should Beatty think he could get away with it? It's a terrible film that should depress fans of anyone involved.

what went wrong
2008-06-12 - All these actors and all the pretty places they live and the marvelous houses and clothes and cars and interesting careers yet the movie is empty. Maybe you expect more from people when they get past the age of fifty. It could have been fun and flirty and silly without losing all sense of proportion. I wanted to like these people and to care but when Wareen Beatty and Goldi Hawn show up wearing the same clothes they wore thirty years ago and playing the same character they've played before you begin to feel sorry for them. Give me something new besides all the pretty things. What a fun romp this could have been.

PETER CHELSOM, OPUS 4
2008-03-01 - ***1/2 2001. Directed by British born director Peter Chelsom. The sentimental adventures of two couples after 25 years of marriage. Very funny but one can regret that the slapstick mood of the second part of the film is a little bit too heavy. I preferred a lot the NYC scenes with the family problems of the Stoddard's to the Sun Valley scenes that feature a farcical Charlton Heston and the evanescent because empty character played by Andie MacDowell. Good surprise, though.

Bad writing makes for a really bad movie
2007-12-19 - Ok, I've said it more than 1000 times -- what makes a good movie (or TV show) is good writing; therefore bad writing makes for a bad movie. But add a bad actor like Warren Beatty and you have a horrible movie. When I first heard of this flick, I wanted to like it. I accidentally stumbled upon it last night on the Independent Movie Channel and gave it a viewing. What was crazy about it was that as each terrible scene after another happened, I couldn't stop watching this train wreck of a film. I hate to dump on a movie, but this movie was so bad that I just have to! And that's that. Wanna see a train wreck without blood and guts, then here's your chance! Enjoy.... SUCKER!