Inventing the Abbotts

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Inventing the Abbotts

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The lives of two closely linked, small town Illinois families dangerously intersect in this domestic drama, Inventing the Abbotts, set in the 1950s. Though they are from the wrong side of the tracks, the working class brothers Jacey (Billy Crudup) and Doug Holt (Joaquin Phoenix) are in love with the wealthy and beautiful Abbott sisters. Shy and quiet Doug, who worships his womanizing brother, has eyes for the iconoclastic Pam (Liv Tyler), but Jacey's affections are more calculating; he's interested in whichever Abbott sister is convenient. At first, this is Eleanor (Jennifer Connelly), the "wild" sister. But eventually Jacey sets his sights on the divorced oldest sister, Alice (Joanna Going). For Jacey, his conquest of the Abbotts is a form of economic revenge, as he believes that the head of the family stole a patent that made him rich from the Holts' late father. He is eventually revealed as an embittered cad. Doug and Pam finally get a chance.

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