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Inventing the Abbotts

When you want it all but can't have it, there's only one way to handle life... invent it.

1997 · R · 1h 50m

Directed by Pat O'Connor

6.3

TMDB audience score
276 votes, out of 10

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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.

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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

  • David Frazier
    Ted

  • Margaret Ash
    Store Clerk