The soundtrack to the period romantic drama features music from the London Metropolitan Orchestra (conducted by Michael Kamen) along with recordings from Leadbelly, the Elegants, Tara MacLean and ex-Stray Cats members Slim Jim Phantom and Lee Rocker. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Leadbelly (Performer), Michael Kamen (Arranger), Michael Kamen (Conductor), Michael Kamen (Producer), Michael Kamen (Orchestration), Michael Kamen (Adaptation), Robert Kraft (Music Supervisor), The Elegants (Performer), Jeff Baxter (Guitar), Jeff Baxter (Performer), Christopher S. Brooks (Producer), Christopher S. Brooks (Music Supervisor), Michael Connell (Editing), Jesse Levy (Orchestration), Stephen McLaughlin (Producer), Stephen McLaughlin (Engineer), Stephen McLaughlin (Mixing), Slim Jim Phantom (Drums), Slim Jim Phantom (Performer), Lee Rocker (Bass), Lee Rocker (Performer), David Sabee (Music Contractor), Claire Martin (Performer), Tara MacLean (Performer), Graham Sutton (Editing), Vic Fraser (Music Preparation), Steve Lotwis (Editing), Jeff Pollack (Music Consultant), Sacha Putnam (Orchestration), Ed Schearmur (Orchestration), Pat Takahashi (Music Preparation), Ralph Alfonso (Cover Design), Ray Gelato (Performer), Andy Brown (Music Contractor), London Metropolitan Orchestra (Performer)
Inventing the Abbotts is a 1997drama
film and romance film directed by Pat
O'Connor, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Billy
Crudup, Liv Tyler, and Jennifer Connelly.
The screenplay by Ken Hixon is based on a short story by Sue
Miller. The original music score is composed by Michael Kamen. The film is marketed
with the tagline "When you want it all but can't have it, there's only one way to handle life... invent it." Julie Benz has a small role as a co-ed who gets chatted up by Jacey Holt.
Plot summary
The lives of two closely linked families dangerously intersect in a small Illinois town in the 1950s. Though they are from the
wrong side of the tracks, the working class brothers Jacey and Doug Holt are in love with the wealthy and beautiful Abbott
sisters. Shy and quiet Doug, who worships his womanizing brother, has eyes for the iconoclastic Pamela, but Jacey's affections
are more calculating: he's interested in whichever Abbott sister is interested in him.
At first, this is the wild sister Eleanor, but eventually Jacey sets his sights on the unhappily married oldest sister Alice.
For Jacey, his conquest of the Abbotts is a form of economic revenge, as he believes that Lloyd Abbott, the head of the family,
stole a patent that made him rich from the Holts' late father, John Charles. When he's eventually revealed as an embittered cad,
Jacey's mistreatment of the Abbott girls makes the genuine affection between Doug and Pamela impossible for either family to
accept.
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