Inventing the Abbotts with Joaquin Phoenix: DVD Cover

    Inventing the Abbotts Director: Pat O'Connor Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Liv Tyler, Will Patton

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    • DVD Release Date: 03/13/2001
    • Original Release: 1997
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 6,145

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    Anamorphic widescreen [aspect ratio 1.85:1]; English 5.1 Surround, English Dolby Surround, French Dolby Surround; Subtitles: English, Spanish; Featurette; Theatrical trailer

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    1. Main Titles [:35]
    2. The End of My Innocence [1:45]
    3. The Abbotts' Party [3:11]
    4. Dad's Patent [2:32]
    5. Eleanor [3:48]
    6. Doug's Discovery [1:32]
    7. Pam [2:34]
    8. Re-Inventing Jacey [1:03]
    9. A "Date" [2:43]
    10. End of the Affair [:57]
    11. Mom's Affair [2:01]
    12. Pam's Party [5:39]
    13. A Beer with Mom [1:50]
    14. Graduation Day [3:18]
    15. Battling Brothers [2:49]
    16. Alice [3:03]
    17. A Flat Tire [3:53]
    18. A Day with Pam [2:20]
    19. Illusions of Love [2:25]
    20. The Truth about Lloyd [2:05]
    21. The Past Catches Up [4:34]
    22. It's Too Late [3:02]
    23. Jacey's Girl [4:19]
    24. A Sad Homecoming [2:55]
    25. The Unfair Truth [5:59]
    26. To Find Pam [1:42]
    27. The Best Kind of Love [2:28]
    28. End Titles [5:26]

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    Editorial Reviews

    The lives of two closely linked, small town Illinois families dangerously intersect in this domestic drama set in the 1950s, based on a short story by Sue Miller and directed by Pat O'Connor. Though they are from the wrong side of the tracks, the working class brothers Jacey (Billy Crudup) and Doug Holt (Joaquin Phoenix) are in love with the wealthy and beautiful Abbott sisters. Shy and quiet Doug, who worships his womanizing brother, has eyes for the iconoclastic Pam (Liv Tyler), but Jacey's affections are more calculating; he's interested in whichever Abbott sister is interested in him. At first, this is Eleanor (Jennifer Connelly), the "wild" sister, but eventually Jacey sets his sights on the divorced oldest sister, Alice (Joanna Going). For Jacey, his conquest of the Abbotts is a form of economic revenge, as he believes that the head of the family, Lloyd (Will Patton), stole a patent that made him rich from the Holts' late father. When he's eventually revealed as an embittered cad, Jacey's mistreatment of the Abbott girls makes the genuine affection between Doug and Pam impossible for either family to accept.

    Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

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