Town & Country (2001)
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13% of critics liked it
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17% of users liked it
(2,615 ratings)
This long-delayed romantic comedy from director Peter Chelsom stars Warren Beatty as a wealthy New York architect, Porter Stoddard. The revelation that his best friend Griffin (Garry Shandling) is cheating on his wife Mona (Goldie Hawn) leads to a mid-life crisis of sorts for Porter, jeopardizing… More This long-delayed romantic comedy from director Peter Chelsom stars Warren Beatty as a wealthy New York architect, Porter Stoddard. The revelation that his best friend Griffin (Garry Shandling) is cheating on his wife Mona (Goldie Hawn) leads to a mid-life crisis of sorts for Porter, jeopardizing his marriage to Ellie (Diane Keaton). When Mona leaves Griffin for her family's antebellum home in Mississippi, Porter accompanies her to lend his professional assistance in designing some home improvements and ends up entangled in a romantic assignation with his best friend's estranged wife. He then embarks on a series of other illicit, comical affairs. Among Porter's conquests are a cellist, Alex (Nastassja Kinski), the beautiful Eugenie (Andie MacDowell), and a Halloween reveler named Auburn (Jenna Elfman). He also runs afoul of Eugenie's overprotective father (Charlton Heston), who's armed with a shotgun and disturbingly unable to view his daughter as an adult. Town & Country (2001) is based on a script co-written by Buck Henry. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
- Directed By
- Boris Damast, Peter Chelsom
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Sep 1, 2000 Wide
- Studio
- New Line Cinema
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Lim, Village Voice
An antediluvian portrayal of male midlife crisis, reducing any imaginable extramarital complication to a crass matter of gender warfare.
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Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Nothing [the couples] can say or do can make me care whether they stay together or split up or turn gay.
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Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
The whole thing is too big, too loud, too expensive and has too much Diane Keaton.
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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Town & Country is no Ishtar, but it's no Shampoo either.
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Nell Minow, Common Sense Media
Enjoyable but ultimately mystifying.
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Cast
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Warren Beatty
as Porter Stoddard
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Diane Keaton
as Ellie Stoddard
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Andie MacDowell
as Eugenie Claybourne
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Garry Shandling
as Griffin
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Jenna Elfman
as Auburn
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Goldie Hawn
as Mona
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Nastassja Kinski
as Alex
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Charlton Heston
as Mr. Claybourne
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Marian Seldes
as Mrs. Claybourne
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Josh Hartnett
as Tom Stoddard
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Tricia Vessey
as Alice Stoddard
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Buck Henry
as Suttler
