Taglines: There’s no such thing as a small affair.
Upscale liberal New York couples, Porter and Ellie Stoddard, who have just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary, and Griffin and Mona Morris, are best friends. Porter and Ellie even work together – he as an architect, she the chief designer of his buildings – and Porter and Mona have known each other as friends since they were children. Although both marriages are considered solid, Porter and Ellie’s is seen as even more so since Porter is deemed to be an old fuddy duddy in his views. However, Mona catches Griffin cheating on her.
This act brings into examination the individual relationships between the four, especially in Griffin wanting to get out information on the redhead Mona saw him with, and as Porter’s chastisement of Griffin’s infidelity is hypocritical since Porter has been having an affair with a cellist named Alex, although he isn’t sure why he has felt the need to cheat let alone with Alex with who he has nothing in common. The further encounters that Porter has with a few other women – namely Eugenie Claiborne, who, along with her parents, have a less than conventional view of relationships, and a hardware store clerk named Auburn – may bring his relationship with Ellie into clearer focus.
Town & Country is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Chelsom, written by Buck Henry and Michael Laughlin, and starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Garry Shandling, Andie MacDowell, Jenna Elfman, Nastassja Kinski, and Charlton Heston. Beatty plays an architect, with Keaton as his wife, and Hawn and Shandling as their best friends. This is Beatty’s and Keaton’s first film together since 1981’s Reds, and Beatty’s third film with Hawn, after 1971’s $ and 1975’s Shampoo.
About the Story
Porter Stoddard (Beatty) is so prosperous an architect, he has New York homes on Park Avenue and in the Hamptons, as well as a vacation lodge out west in Sun Valley[disambiguation needed]. He has been married for 25 years to the equally successful Ellie (Keaton), an interior designer, but has been having an affair with Alex (Kinski), a beautiful young cellist.
There is trouble brewing in the marriage of their best friends. Mona Morris (Hawn) wants a divorce from antique-dealer husband Griffin, catching him having a hotel tryst. The part she did not catch is that Griffin’s new romantic partner is a cross-dressing man. Mona wants to travel to Mississippi to see her girlhood antebellum home. Ellie is worried about Mona’s depression over the state of her marriage and does not feel she should be alone, so Porter is asked to accompany Mona down south. There, they end up having a quick sexual fling.
With things awkward at home for both, Porter and Griffin fly by themselves to Sun Valley to get away from their troubles. But it is not long before Porter finds himself in a romantic entanglement with Eugenie Claybourne (MacDowell), a spoiled heiress whose gun-loving father (Heston) is already loading his shotgun in case Porter does wrong by his daughter. A free spirit named Auburn (Elfman) also ends up coaxing Porter and Griffin to a Halloween party, where they end up dressed in preposterous costumes.
Town and Country (2001)
Directed by: Peter Chelsom
Starring: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Garry Sahndling, Andie MacDowell, Jenna Elfman, Charlton Heston, Marian Seldes, Josh Hartnett, Nastassja Kinski
Screenplay by: Michael Laughlin, Buck Henry
Production Design by: Caroline Hanania
Cinematography by: William A. Fraker
Film Editing by: David Moritz, Claire Simpson
Costume Design by: Molly Maginnis
Set Decoration by: Lisa Fischer
Art Direction by; Mark Worthington
Music byk: Rolfe Kent
MPAA Rating: R for sexuality and language.
Türkiye Dağıtımı: New Line Cinema
Gösterim Tarihi: April 27, 2001
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