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Inventing the Abbotts

Year:

1997

Duration:

110 min

Genres:

Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

6.4

Director:

Pat O'Connor

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1997-04-04

Filming Locations: Healdsburg, California, USA

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $2,301,138 (USA) (6 April 1997)

Gross: $5,936,344 (USA) (11 June 1997)

Cast

Actor

Character

Michael Keaton

Joanna Going

Inventing the Abbotts

Zoe McLellan

Inventing the Abbotts

Janette Andrade

Joaquin Phoenix

Doug Holt

Billy Crudup

Jacey Holt

Will Patton

Lloyd Abbott

Kathy Baker

Helen Holt

Jennifer Connelly

Eleanor Abbott

Michael Sutton

Steve

Liv Tyler

Pamela Abbott

Barbara Williams

Joan Abbott

Alessandro Nivola

Peter Vanlaningham

Nicole M. Vassallo

Giggling Girl #1

Amanda Sherman

Giggling Girl #2

Shawn Hatosy

Victor

Garrett M. Brown

Webb Crosby

Julie Benz

Co-ed

David Frazier

Ted

Margaret Ash

Store Clerk

Clive Rosengren

Principal

Susan Barnes

Mrs. Porter

Andrea Post

Waitress

Jack Cummins

Funeral Director

David Heckendorn

Pre-Record Singer

Guy Kochlani

Student (uncredited)

Ralph Moratz

Extra (uncredited)

Dayna Price

Susie Jacobs

Sean St. Heart

Mike

Joseph Benjamin Stewart

Dancer (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Jennifer Connelly and Liv Tyler play sisters in this film. Connelly played Betty Ross in Hulk (2003), and was replaced by Tyler in The Incredible Hulk (2008).

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Goofs

When in the movie Doug writes on the window "I love you", he writes with the finger on the glass that is covered with steam, and it looks nice, but in fact when it's cold and the windows are covered with steam, the steam is always INSIDE the room, not outside.

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When Eleanor is having sex with Jacey, and Doug walks in, her hair changes position between the away shot and the close up.

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During Pam's graduation, Alice's baby cries and she has to leave the auditorium. The child looks about 18 mos, but the cry in the audio is one of an infant.

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Quotes

Lloyd Abbott: [to Doug] You didn't know your mother at all if you think someone like me would ever stood a chance with someone like her.

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Narrator: The end of my innocence and childhood began in 1957. It is remarkable to me now just how little I knew then about the people around me. It took me years to figure out exactly what the truth was, especially given my brother's knack at inventing facts. My mother once told me that if the Abbotts didn't exist, my brother would have had to invent them.

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Alice Abbott: I'm married.

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