Inventing the Abbotts

Name: Inventing the Abbotts
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: April 4, 1997
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 49
Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Joaquin Phoenix, Liv Tyler

1997

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: April 4, 1997 | R

Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Joaquin Phoenix, Liv Tyler

Summary: A tale of class division and forbidden love set in the 1950's.

Director: Pat O'Connor

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 110 min

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James Berardinelli

Inventing the Abbotts has the cast and characters to be something special; the script just isn't ambitious enough. Read full review

Walter Addiego

The veteran Baker anchors the proceedings, and you would like to see more of her character. Read full review

Emanuel Levy

An emotionally powerful but extremely old-fashioned coming-of-age saga. Read full review

Keith Phipps

The members of its young cast (Jennifer Connelly, Joaquin Phoenix, Liv Tyler) have all shown promise elsewhere, but don't really get to do much but look attractive and troubled here. They may be stars, but as long as they keep treading water in bland stuff like this, the world may never know. Read full review

Rick Groen

This thing can take pride of place in a long tradition of Hollywood howlers. Read full review

David Sterritt

The drama is long on 1950s atmosphere and complicated feelings, short on emotional depth and real psychological insight. Read full review

Richard Schickel

The goofy hysteria of something like "A Summer Place" was infinitely more entertaining and emotionally authentic than the distant smugness of this failed clone. [7 April 1997, p. 76]

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TerryO.

Oct 17, 2005

A collection of talent in a believable ensemble setting makes it more than it might have been. Yes, it is leisurely. Yes, it is too focused inward on a couple of themes. But it is a good looking scrapbook of a movie. How could you not want the best for Tyler and Phoenix, and Mrs. Holt? In A collection of talent in a believable ensemble setting makes it more than it might have been. Yes, it is leisurely. Yes, it is too focused inward on a couple of themes. But it is a good looking scrapbook of a movie. How could you not want the best for Tyler and Phoenix, and Mrs. Holt? In the end, 2 out of 3 ain't bad. Kind of like in real life, and that bittersweetness is what , in the end, makes it worth watching and appreciating.… Expand

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