Town & Country
Time Out says
It's hard not to muse on this film's notorious $90m backstory when it's so much more interesting than the tired, trite onscreen shenanigans. And then, how are we to account for the abrupt shifts in tone, from 'sophisticated' comedy of manners to shrill slapstick, or for a meandering plotline which shuttles Beatty's philandering husband across time zones and bed partners (Kinski, Hawn, MacDowell) with more desperation than sense - if not by noting that filming stretched from two months to two years of handwringing, re-edits and reshoots? Flat and tirelessly unfunny, the film boasts a conspicuous haute society setting which makes it all the more insulting and complacent. This is how Shampoo might have turned out if Beatty had played the Jack Warden character: Lee Grant's clueless super-rich husband. Beatty's patented passive adultery was already looking thin ten years ago. Here it's just self-serving and sad.
Details
Release details
Duration:
104 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Peter Chelsom
Screenwriter:
Michael Laughlin, Buck Henry
Cast:
Warren Beatty
Diane Keaton
Andie MacDowell
Garry Shandling
Jenna Elfman
Nastassja Kinski
Goldie Hawn
Charlton Heston
Marian Seldes
Josh Hartnett
Diane Keaton
Andie MacDowell
Garry Shandling
Jenna Elfman
Nastassja Kinski
Goldie Hawn
Charlton Heston
Marian Seldes
Josh Hartnett