Town & Country (2001)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Porter Stoddard	Warren Beatty
Ellie Stoddard	Diane Keaton
Eugenie Claybourne	Andie MacDowell	½
Griffin Miller	Garry Shandling
Auburn	Jenna Elfman
Alex	Nastassja Kinski	½
Mona Miller	Goldie Hawn
Eugenie's Father	Charlton Heston	½
Tom Stoddard	Josh Hartnett
Alice Stoddard	Tricia Vessey

Review

Town & Country is a great example of how bad publicity can ruin not only a film's box office performance, but also its critical reception and subsequent reputation. I won't claim that critics are biased, but I will claim that the state of affairs between filming of Town & Country started in 1998 until it finally was released in 2001 didn't help the overall reception of the film.

Starting off with falling into line: the film is somewhat abruptly edited, it is largely idiotic and it has a script that is a bit all over the place. But the two latter arguments does more good than harm for Town & Country. The carefree lack of a thin red thematic line here does wonders for its little discussions which otherwise easily could have come off as something you pull off of an almost static production line. A situational comedy about sex and infidelity is something we've seen before – but not quite like this, with ageing swan-singing stars, with illogicalities and peculiarities like dancing polar bears and swearing old ladies in wheelchairs, and with numerous tasteless and inconceivable segments that freshen up this amusing little film. Because this is a little film – no matter how much it cost. And it is a film with spirit, albeit a wavering one.