Inventing the Abbotts

A film about class and sex, set long ago when both felt a little less theoretical. Two working-class brothers set out to seduce the daughters of the local plutocrat. One succeeds in love; the other only at causing pain. It's a movie that perhaps understands the erotic charge of class anxiety a little too well.

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Pat O'Connor directed Inventing the Abbotts in 1997. See Pat O'Connor's full filmography, where to start with Pat O'Connor, or where to go after you've seen everything by Pat O'Connor.

Inventing the Abbotts was released in 1997 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 110 minutes.