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| TOWN AND COUNTRY (1999) - R
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by Lew Irwin
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In their reviews of Town and Country, most critics are pointing out that the film is being released three years after it was completed. Many are wondering why it was ever released at all, particularly after the miserable publicity it has received over those three years. Comments Joe Morgenstern in today's Wall Street Journal: "In a weird way this long-delayed romantic comedy, which cost at least $85 million, arrives pre-forgotten -- no support from its studio; no publicity campaign by its stars, who have disavowed it." Several critics are far less cutting. Bob Strauss in the Los Angeles Daily News, for example, writes: "Town and Country turns out to be neither the disaster its long, tortured production schedule would indicate nor a film that really does the talents involved justice." And Jay Carr in the Boston Globe clearly enjoyed the movie, saying that it "reminds us that there's a certain advantage to low expectations." Despite the terrible buzz about it, Carr concludes, the film "stands as one of the season's few genuinely adult comedies." Carr's praise, however, is echoed by few other critics. Winding up his review on ABC's Good Morning America, Joel Siegel commented: "You can't blame the actors, they did good work. It's the fault of the studio executives who didn't pull the plug. Sometimes you have to practice euthanasia. The problem is, in Hollywood, they think euthanasia is Jackie Chan's younger brother." |
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