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When you want it all but can't have it, there's only one way to handle life... invent it. - Inventing the Abbotts
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Title: Inventing the Abbotts

Release Date: 4 Apr 1997

Runtime: 1h 50m

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Fox 2000 Pictures, Imagine Entertainment

Production Companies: Fox 2000 Pictures, Imagine Entertainment

Overview: 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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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.3 (226 votes)

Cast

  • Doug Holt: Joaquin Phoenix
  • Pamela Abbott: Liv Tyler
  • Eleanor Abbott: Jennifer Connelly
  • Jacey Holt: Billy Crudup
  • Alice Abbott: Joanna Going
  • Helen Holt: Kathy Baker
  • Lloyd Abbott: Will Patton
  • Steve: Michael Sutton
  • Webb Crosby: Garrett M. Brown
  • Joan Abbott: Barbara Williams
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