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TOWN AND COUNTRY   Print  E-mail 
Written by Graham Reed  
Monday, 05 July 2004
Town and Country has a reputation of being one of the biggest flops of all time; and if you've ever wanted to see how to spend $80 million with no discernible result, here's how to find out.

It's a so-called (but humourless) comedy about millionaire architect Warren Beatty (in little more than a vanity project) and his continual string of extra-marital affairs with women half his age.


The main problem here is the script:- joke free, populated with limp characters that make it very difficult to feel sympathy for the woes of American upper-class millionaires with paradise syndrome undergoing a mid-life crisis in amongst all their snowbound retreats,
and with nothing more important in their lives than their own self- obsessed neuroses and the choice of which luxury jet to take to work in the morning.

This is frankly unrealistic, and alienating who anyone who earns less than $1million a year, let alone someone who has to worry about how to pay the phone bill. Add to this, an uninvolved and uninspired plot, a squandered cast with jobbing direction and this has got Turkey written all over it in neon.

Its more of an endurance test than a movie, and It's amazing that a film this bad ever got released, let alone made. Not even worth the disc it comes on.  You'll never get these 2 hours of your life back, so why bother?  I did and all i had to show for it was this crappy review! I'd rather than wallpapered my mouth with domestos...

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