Town & Country (2001) on Netflix
New York architect Porter Stoddard has been married to Ellie for twenty-five years while carrying on an affair with Alex, a cellist. Friends Mona and Griffin Morris face divorce.
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- Rotten Tomatoes13%
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Plot summary
With homes in New York and a vacation lodge in Sun Valley, Idaho, Porter Stoddard is a prosperous architect. He has been married to Ellie for twenty-five years, and she is an interior designer and the chief designer of his buildings. Their closest friends are Mona Morris and her husband Griffin, an antique dealer. Porter is also involved with Alex, a young cellist, though he is unsure why he cheats. Mona catches Griffin in a hotel tryst and wants a divorce, and Porter's scolding of Griffin's infidelity is hypocritical. Mona wants to see the antebellum house of her girlhood in Mississippi, and Porter is asked to accompany her down south.
Cast
- Vincent Lascoumesas Waiter
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Town & Country (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Buck Henry was hired for what was meant to be a few weeks of polishing the Town & Country script; he stayed on for months and, by some accounts, earned $3 million for rewriting roughly half of it, money he said he used to buy a new home.
- Reshoots booked from April 10, 2000 as a couple of weeks of work ran through June, wrapping two years after principal photography began; they added screenwriter Buck Henry as a divorce mediator and a new fashion-gala climax for all the main female characters.
- Town & Country cost an estimated $90 million to produce before marketing and took in $10,372,291 worldwide; once exhibitors took their usual half, the studio lost at least $100 million.
- The scene in which Warren Beatty and Nastassja Kinski's characters are in Manhattan and she hails a cab was actually shot in downtown Los Angeles, and it was one of the last scenes filmed.
- Filming ran into trouble because Warren Beatty demanded many takes while the script was still being written: producers disliked Michael Laughlin's ending and brought in other writers, among them Paul Attanasio and Gary Ross.
- Town & Country was Warren Beatty's last screen appearance for 15 years, until he starred in Rules Don't Apply in November 2016.
