Inventing the Abbotts
Inventing the Abbotts is a 1997 comingofage film directed by Pat OConnor, starring Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, as well as Joanna Going. The screenplay by Ken Hixon is based on a short story by Sue Miller. The original music score was composed by Michael Kamen.
Because of a misunderstanding of the circumstances surrounding his fathers death a supposed bet with Abbott that took the elder Holts life, J.C. Billy Crudup seeks revenge on the Abbotts through the calculated seduction of the Abbott daughters. At first, J.C. cannot wait to escape the suffocating life in Haley, later in the film, however, he is pulled back as he idolizes the Abbott family, as well as obsesses about the oldest daughter, Alice Joanna Going, thus seeking to jockey his way into the Abbott family.At first, Doug Joaquin Phoenix, the younger brother, admires and worships his brothers libertine lifestyle. However, as he matures, he discovers that all that glitters is not gold. He eventually falls in love with the youngest, virginal Abbott, Pamela Liv Tyler, who protests his early, fumbling sexual advances. She forces him to appreciate her for who she is, not what she may offer up to him. Meanwhile, Eleanor Jennifer Connelly is sent away to a mental hospital after she and J.C. are caught by Lloyd Abbott, who cannot keep them apart. ........
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