Rating: 4.5/5 stars
Watching Inventing the Abbotts in 2024 is a game of “spot the icon.” inventing the abbotts -1997-
The film bombed at the box office, grossing just $5.9 million against a $14 million budget. It was overshadowed by Titanic (released the same year) and L.A. Confidential . Rating: 4
Across the tracks lives the Abbott family: the town’s aristocracy. Lloyd Abbott (Will Patton in a dual role—yes, that is intentional) is the patriarchal factory owner, a self-made man who embodies the American Dream his family has hoarded. His three daughters—Alice (Connelly), Eleanor (Tyler), and the youngest, Pam (Joanna Going)—are objects of veneration and fantasy for every boy in town. Across the tracks lives the Abbott family: the
Upon release on April 4, 1997, Inventing the Abbotts received mixed reviews. The New York Times called it “handsomely mounted but emotionally muffled.” Roger Ebert gave it three stars, praising the performances but noting the incest twist felt “tacked on for shock value.”