Town & Country (2001)

User Rating:

4.4/10   

Director:

Peter Chelsom

Writers (WGA):

Michael Laughlin (written by) and
Buck Henry (written by)

Release Date:

27 April 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and...

Plot Keywords:

New York | Marriage | Small Town | Traffic Jam | Fishing

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Cast

Warren Beatty	...	Porter Stoddard
Diane Keaton	...	Ellie Stoddard
Andie MacDowell	...	Eugenie Claybourne
Garry Shandling	...	Griffin Miller
Jenna Elfman	...	Auburn
Nastassja Kinski	...	Alex
Goldie Hawn	...	Mona Miller
Charlton Heston	...	Eugenie's Father
Marian Seldes	...	Eugenie's Mother
Josh Hartnett	...	Tom Stoddard (as Joshua Hartnett)
Tricia Vessey	...	Alice Stoddard
Vincent Lascoumes	...	Waiter
William Hootkins	...	Barney (as Bill Hootkins)
Terry Hoyos	...	Yolanda (as Terri Hoyos)
Marc Casabani	...	Omar

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality and language.

Runtime:

104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | France:U | Germany:12 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R | South Korea:18

Filming Locations:

Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

FR Production

Trivia:

The winter mountain scenes (filmed in Sun Valley, Idaho) started filming in the early winter. Unfortunately, there was no snow on the ground at the time. Several scenes were filmed with manmade snow. After filming these scenes, over a foot of natural snow feel the next day. Some of the scenes were re-shot in the "natural" background.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the frontal shot of the Claybourne's house while everyone is in bed, there are no tire tracks in the snow. But when Porter sneaks out of the house a while later, there are fresh tire tracks from his SUV already leading away from the house.

Quotes:

Porter: I understand that you were an intimate of Hemingway's.
Eugenie's Father: Intimate? Is that some kind of homo thing?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Choses secrètes (2002)

Soundtrack:

You're Gonna See A Lot Of Me

Elvis would have shot the screen

This thing was beyond crap, and I don't use that word often. I had heard it was bad, so I rented it for dud night, and called my sister to come watch it, because we need to bounce our comments off each other. Well, she left halfway through, vowing to watch Lord of The Rings, to try to cleanse her brain. I'm going to use a toilet brush on mine.

I should have known it wasn't an ordinary bad movie in the first scene. There's Grampa, aka Warren Beatty, sitting in a bed, trying to cover his wrinkled shoulders with the sheet. Talk about stomach-turning. That's the plot in a nutshell, old Warren pretending it's 1966 when swingers like him hopped on the nearest woman as regularly as they hopped on a plane.

Seriously, there is no plot. Every washed-up actor or actress in Hollywood is invited to drop by to make an ass of him (or her) self, including Charleton Heston, who must have already been in the grip of his recently-announced Alzheimer's Disease. I know rents are high in Los Angeles, but how badly do these people need money? And did any of them even get any? This stinker can't have made a nickel.

I can't summarize this mess because there was no rhyme or reason anywhere. I can't describe the wild over-acting, except to call it amateur night. All I can do is recommend that nobody, and I mean nobody, watch this thing. Don't inadvertently let your dog or cat see it. It's so bad you can't even make fun of it. That's how bad it is.