Town & Country | | Cast : | Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton | | Director : | Peter Chelsom | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | April 27, 2001 | | DVD Released Date : | February 03, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | March 23, 2004 | | Summary | Not Worth It | Content
 | Do not waste your time. In spite of the cast, this movie is a whopping dud. Meandering and unfulfiling. A shame. I'd give it zero stars, but the system won't let me. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 18, 2004 | | Summary | One of the worst. movies we've ever tried to watch | Content
| This was one of the worst movies my husband and I ever tried to watch. We finally gave up and I threw our DVD away. We were looking forward to watching it because of the cast, but that just proves that you need more than very good actores to make a good movie. Nothing seemed funny to us; I find it strange that it got better reviews than "My Fellow Americans" and "Her Alibi." We enjoyed the first one and thought the second one was cute, but they got trounced. Which might also prove that you have to be an outspoken liberal to get a good review in Hollywood? |
| Rating | | | Date | September 23, 2003 | | Summary | Bright and Funny | Content
| This film is a hoot. I can only describe it as a less intellectual, brighter form of a Woody Allen film. It's got beautiful shots of New York, it's got the neurotic "uptown" socialites, it's got the midlife crises situations (a re-curring theme in Allen's films), and it's got careless laugh out loud sight gags. A must see...a perfect "sunday afternoon movie." |
| Rating | | | Date | September 12, 2003 | | Summary | This Has Some Very Funny Moments... | Content
| ...like at the Costume Party. And when Beatty goes to the home of psycho McDowell and runs into Charlton Heston, her dad, an avid hunter and a card carrying NRA member who has that cold dead grip on his daughter as well as his rifles. McDowell's wheelchair bound, vodka gimlet drinking Mother thinks this rifle business of his is limpness, pure and simple. But don't let the neighbors know, willya? Beatty, it seems, comes right back, full circle, to the Lothario thing that he established in Shampoo. (Hey! Goldie Hawn was in that one with Beatty, too.) And it works on the audience for a while. Until he gives that same "I'm so, so sorry, but I can't help myself" speech--updated and Grecian formula dyed for the New Nilhilenium. Plus, now he's married in real life and in this docudrama. And who would have thought Garry Shandling would play so convincing a gay man--albeit one who has difficulties admitting this to his wife and his pal? Jenna Elfman here is goofy but wasted. Her persona is better than what's offered her here. SHE should have played Mary Jane Watson to Maguire's Spiderman...and Keaton--hey! didn't she appear with Beatty in Reds?--well, she played a woman who obviously has *no clue* quite well. If nothing else, a great way for us guys to oogle over the fabuloso Natassia K. and be astounded by Hawn's great gams. One wonders if Hawn has taken that potion her character had in Death Becomes Her. I'd better stop here. I'm beginning to sound a little like Warren Beatty. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 04, 2003 | | Summary | Highly underrated, misunderstood and misjudged comedy | Content
| Surprisingly, after all the uproar of the critics, this movie is highly underrated, misunderstood and misjudged comedy of Hollywood. For whatever reason, critics just don't seem to get it but it is indeed one the most wittily written comedy of recent years about urban married life.
Critics and some marketing geniuses did a total unjust to this movie. Scripts is hilarious, didn't lose it balance at any time, character development, well, relationship development is very concise and to the point, comedic elements are intuitively funny... Show me one movie where one fine early mornning, a successful architect finds himself having breakfast in the privacy of his own home with uninvited boyfriend of architect's maid in his underwear and unexpected strangely foreign boyfriend (of many unknown origins) of his only daughter in his robe at the kitchen table when his only son just happens to enter into his kitchen. And breaking a awkward silence there somes hearty warm welcome "Ola!" Talk about multicultural harmony in work!
A great ensemble of cast such as Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Nastassja Kinski, Goldie Hawn, Andie MacDowell,
Garry Shandling, Jenna Elfman, Josh Hartnett, Charlton Heston and they all are hilarious in their situation comedy.
Of course, its not Oscar material but its one heck of a hilarious comedy movie of Hollywood! Out of 5 it should get 7 (2 bonus points for witty script). |
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