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Inventing the Abbotts (1997)

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

4 April 1997 · 1h 50mDramaRomance

★ 6.3 / 10 · 275 votes on TMDB

Directed by Pat O'Connor

What it's about

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

    Joaquin Phoenix

    Doug Holt

  • Liv Tyler

    Liv Tyler

    Pamela Abbott

  • Jennifer Connelly

    Jennifer Connelly

    Eleanor Abbott

  • Billy Crudup

    Billy Crudup

    Jacey Holt

  • Joanna Going

    Joanna Going

    Alice Abbott

  • Kathy Baker

    Kathy Baker

    Helen Holt

  • Will Patton

    Will Patton

    Lloyd Abbott

  • Michael Sutton

    Michael Sutton

    Steve

  • Garrett M. Brown

    Garrett M. Brown

    Webb Crosby

  • Barbara Williams

    Barbara Williams

    Joan Abbott

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