This is the kind of material that might have graced a mid-1950s Universal-International weeper-maybe one adapted from a John O'Hara best-seller filled with descriptions of country clubs. Abbott was spending way too much time consoling the new widow Holt ( Kathy Baker). Soon after, rumors raced through town that Mr.
But then Abbott allegedly cheated Holt out of a valuable patent for sliding desk drawers, and then Holt died when he drove his DeSoto roadster onto a frozen lake on a stupid $20 bet. Abbott and the boys' father were friends.
They live in Haley, Ill., a town of maybe 20,000, dominated by a steel desk factory owned by Mr. To understand the three Abbott girls and the two Holt brothers, it helps to understand their world.
The youngest is Pam ( Liv Tyler), and she's also the nicest, and the one Doug really likes, although he also lusts after Eleanor. The middle is Eleanor ( Jennifer Connelly), the official "bad girl,'' who gets sent away to stewardess school for her exploits. The oldest is Alice ( Joanna Going), the official "nice girl,'' who gets pregnant, gets married, gets divorced and gets Jacey, in that order. He tends to repeat himself, finding countless different ways to say that his upwardly mobile brother Jacey Holt ( Billy Crudup) has always been more confident and successful-especially around the Abbott girls. Urn:oclc:682031700 Republisher_date 20120901060520 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120821211252 Scanner movie is narrated by the younger brother, Doug Holt ( Joaquin Phoenix).
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