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Inventing the Abbotts
MEANRANK
57/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 41, highest is Kinopoisk on 68. Critics average 45, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Director
- Pat O'Connor
- Writer
- Ken Hixon
- Released
- 4 April 1997
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $5.9M
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