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Town & Country
New Line Cinema
FILM:
MPAA 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.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Michael Laughlin
Buck Henry
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Peter Chelsom
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 16, 2001
Video: October 16, 2001
Theatrical: April 27, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
106 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
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.
63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
There is really nothing wrong with Peter Chelsom's Town & Country that younger stars would not have solved.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
There are several stretches when the movie is actually hilarious.
60
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.

60
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.

60
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It may be a haphazard mess, but it's actually pretty funny.

60
New Times (L.A.)
Andy Klein
Nowhere near as bad as distributor New Line seems to think.

50
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Not unlike "Eyes Wide Shut," this is an eerily earnest contemplation of fidelity, and it's pitched as farce.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The humor here is overcooked to the point of limpness.
50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Has the air of a film and actor (Beatty)reaching clumsily for a golden past that's gone.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Wesley Morris
The movie's not bad enough to be world-ending, merely clumsy.

40
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Sets up a cast -- and then proceeds to knock them down like ducks in a shooting gallery.

40
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A lot of talent on both sides of the camera operating in low gear.

40
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.

38
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.
38
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.

30
Film.com
Robert Horton
Little entertainment value.

30
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.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Just coarse, clunky, jerry rigged, and -- worst of all -- not funny.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
What it doesn't have is a script that has anything original, cohesive, or, gasp -- funny -- to say.

20
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.

20
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Limps into theaters at long last, practically begging, with every arthritic pratfall, to be put out of its misery.

11
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?"

10
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.
10
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.

10
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."


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