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Town & Country

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 26 critic reviews
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Based on 5 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Michael Laughlin
Buck Henry
Directed by: Peter Chelsom
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 27, 2001
DVD: October 16, 2001
Running Time: 106 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for sexuality and language
Starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Garry Shandling, Andie MacDowell, Jenna Elfman, and Nastassja Kinski
In this romantic comedy, Peter Stoddard (Beatty) is a New York architect suffering from a mid-life crisis.
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What The Critics Said
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Boston Globe Jay Carr
Starts out as a somewhat weary farce of infidelity, but turns into something a lot more gratifying, namely a comedy of mercy.
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
There is really nothing wrong with Peter Chelsom's Town & Country that younger stars would not have solved.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
There are several stretches when the movie is actually hilarious.
The New York Times Stephen Holden
What it does offer, however, are the pleasures of watching its seasoned stars expertly go through their familiar paces.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Where Town and Country gets really good and weird – and I do mean good – is only after about an hour into it in deepest, darkest Idaho.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
It may be a haphazard mess, but it's actually pretty funny.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Andy Klein
Nowhere near as bad as distributor New Line seems to think.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Not unlike "Eyes Wide Shut," this is an eerily earnest contemplation of fidelity, and it's pitched as farce.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
The humor here is overcooked to the point of limpness.
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Has the air of a film and actor (Beatty)reaching clumsily for a golden past that's gone.
San Francisco Chronicle Wesley Morris
The movie's not bad enough to be world-ending, merely clumsy.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
Sets up a cast -- and then proceeds to knock them down like ducks in a shooting gallery.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
A lot of talent on both sides of the camera operating in low gear.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
This should have been Beatty's "Wonder Boys," but the filmmakers don't seem to realize they've sent their hero on a sexual adventure that neither his heart nor his dick needs to take.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
The film is clearly an unfinished work and one that feels like a ragged assemblage of parts from at least two entirely different movies all with the same cast.
Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
The surprise behind Town and Country isn't that the director started filming without a finished script, but that he ever thought he had the start of one.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Frank Lovece
So bewildering it's almost entertaining, this comedy of fiftysomethings and their extramarital affairs is one of those films you can actually see flailing for life.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Just coarse, clunky, jerry rigged, and -- worst of all -- not funny.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
What it doesn't have is a script that has anything original, cohesive, or, gasp -- funny -- to say.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
The plot feels arbitrary and seems driven to invent new places for its protagonists to go, as if to justify a budget on which Woody Allen could have made six much better films.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Dennis Lim
Limps into theaters at long last, practically begging, with every arthritic pratfall, to be put out of its misery.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
The script's tone veers chaotically -- and ambitiously -- at once aiming for a Noel Coward kind of elegant sparring, then for the lightly raunchy, rompy absurdism of "What's New, Pussycat?"
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Ragging on Town & Country is like shooting a school of fish that's already belly up in a fetid barrel, but the movie's ineptitude is almost incomparable.
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Seems merely tired and stale, the opposite of fresh, marked by ideas for jokes rather than things that are actually funny. Then, without warning, it goes from inept to complete disaster, sinking from indifferent to fiasco in the blink of an eye.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
It's "Shampoo," 30 years after. What a surprise, then, that this effort ranks lower even than the Steve Martin remake of "The Out-of-Towners."
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 3.2 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
David C. gave it a 4:
Not good.
Marta S. gave it a 1:
It went from boring and pointless to utter nonsense. I wanted to walk out.
