Inventing the Abbotts
“When you want it all but can't have it, there's only one way to handle life... invent it.”
19971h 50mDrama · Romance
Released
April 4, 1997
TMDB Score
63% match · 273 votes
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About the Movie
Synopsis
In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break the hearts of rich young women. But sensitive Doug has a real romance with Pamela, which Jacey and the Abbott patriarch, Lloyd, both frown upon.
DirectorPat O'Connor
- Released
- April 4, 1997
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Box office
- $5.9M
- Studios
- Fox 2000 Pictures, Imagine Entertainment
Top Billed Cast
Joaquin Phoenix
Doug Holt
Liv Tyler
Pamela Abbott
Jennifer Connelly
Eleanor Abbott
Billy Crudup
Jacey Holt
Joanna Going
Alice Abbott
Kathy Baker
Helen Holt
Will Patton
Lloyd Abbott
Michael Sutton
Steve
Garrett M. Brown
Webb Crosby
Barbara Williams
Joan Abbott
Alessandro Nivola
Peter Vanlaningham
Nicole M. Vassallo
Giggling Girl #1
Amanda Sherman
Giggling Girl #2
Shawn Hatosy
Victor
Julie Benz
Co-ed
Zoe McLellan
Sandy
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