Town & Country

Town & Country (2001)

There's no such thing as a small affair.

Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps, some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take often leads to unexpected encounters with hilarious consequences.

Date of release
2001-04-27
TMDB
4.5 / 10 (88)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Peter Chelsom

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Los Angeles

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, Charlton Heston, and Josh Hartnett. Beatty plays an architect, with Keaton as his wife, and Hawn and Shandling as their best friends. It was Beatty's and Keaton's first film together since 1981's Reds, and Beatty's third film with Hawn, after 1971's Dollars and 1975's Shampoo.

Production

The production costs of the film totaled an estimated US$90 million, not including distribution and marketing expenses. The total worldwide box office came to $10,372,291. Considering that typically half of the gross box office receipts go to the exhibitors and half to the filmmakers, Town & Country lost the studio at least $100 million, and probably much more if costs for distribution and marketing are considered, which average around $35–50 mil…

The production began on June 8, 1998, on a budget of $44 million, including $10 million up front for Beatty. Filming was originally supposed to wrap by the fall of 1998 for a summer or fall 1999 release. Various problems occurred during filming, however, including Beatty's meticulous demand for many takes. Also, the script was still being developed, as producers were not satisfied with the ending originally written by Michael Laughlin.

By April 1999, production was still going, but Shandling had to leave to film What Planet Are You From?, as did Keaton (Hanging Up, which she also directed). It took a full year before the cast could be gathered to film the new pages written by Buck Henry. Henry was hired for what was originally only going to be a few weeks of polish work.

Reshoots were scheduled to begin on April 10, 2000, and were expected to last just a couple of weeks. However, filming continued through June 2000, when it finally wrapped two years after principal photography originally began. The reshoots included all of the new scenes, with screenwriter Buck Henry joining the cast as a divorce mediator. A new climax at a fashion gala involving all of the main female characters was written and filmed.

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