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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 18216
Released: March 13, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Forbidden love and impossible dreams intertwine when the handsome working-class Holt brothers are drawn to the beautiful and wealthy Abbott sisters. Sparks fly, passion flare, and family loyalties are suddenly torn and tested against a small town backdrop of social boundaries and dark secrets. Starring Liv Tyler and an all-star cast including Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly, "Inventing the Abbotts" re-invents the trials and triumphs of coming of age in a time of innocence that was anything but.
Description of Inventing the Abbotts:
A showcase for bright young stars, Inventing the Abbotts aspires to be the kind of 1950s melodrama--like Splendor in the Grass--that was perfected by directors like Elia Kazan and Douglas Sirk. Calling on the strength of his earlier Circle of Friends, Irish director Pat O'Connor brings many of that film's admirable qualities to this similar ensemble piece (set in late-'50s Illinois), but it's held together by looser and weaker threads. And yet this tale of class division and forbidden love is sensitively written and beautifully filmed, highlighted by two young lovers at the center of an interfamilial conflict.
"Alice is the good daughter, Eleanor's the bad one, and I'm the one that just sorta gets off the hook." That's how rich girl Pam Abbott (Liv Tyler) describes herself and her older siblings (Joanna Going and Jennifer Connelly, respectively), whose father made his fortune in manufacturing. Working-class neighbor Jacey Holt (Billy Crudup) has "invented" Mr. Abbott as a villain whose wealth came at the Holts' expense and destroyed the reputation of Jacey's widowed mom (Kathy Baker in a fine but underwritten role). Jacey retaliates by callously bedding each Abbott sister in sequence, but his destructive behavior is countered by younger brother Doug (Joaquin Phoenix), whose love for Pam is sweetly genuine. Memorable scenes abound, and the film's period design is impeccable, but sluggish pacing and filigrees of plot make Inventing the Abbotts a faint echo of its '50s predecessors. The fine cast makes it worthwhile, however, and Michael Keaton's (uncredited) narration adds another layer of retrospective charm. --Jeff Shannon
Inventing the Abbotts Reviews:
Last credits song title 
2008-11-13 - The song during the last credits is "On Springfield Mountain" Artist Tara MacLean. I cannot understand why a review says this song is not on the soundtrack, it is listed on the soundtrack, so it should be there.. You cannot buy just this song or download it as an mp3, you have to buy the whole soundtrack.
song title?
2008-08-22 - Another request on the song sang during the end credits. Anyone know the title and/or artist? Cyndi M.
The music in Inventing the Abbotts 
2008-07-11 - Does anyone know who sang the song during the last credits? It was not on the soundtrack, was a woman, and the song was really pretty. It's not mentioned anywhere....
Comment on "Inventing the Abbotts"
2007-03-11 - I like the movie because Liv Tyler and Joaquin appear to be such innocent teenage lovers in the film. Billy's character seems not to be satisfied with everything surrounding him. It seems the fate is not fair to him and he envies everything the rich Abbots possess. Besides, I also like the loving mom of the two brothers very much. She is so virtuous and patient with them. Overall it is a very interesting story.
Inventing The Abbotts
2007-02-19 - Some parts of the movie drags and some of the lines are a bit verbose but overall enjoyable. H Sewell
