Peter Chelsom’s “Town & Country” was a history maker in 2001 and not for reasons the production had reason to celebrate.
This Warren Beatty comedy cost around $90 million and made less than $10 million domestically. It gets better. The filming began in 1998 but, according to multiple reports, it ran over schedule and over-budget, due to Beatty’s disagreements with Chelsom and a cast that kept leaving to make other movies and returning to finish this one.
Meanwhile, re-shoots and rewrites led to Buck Henry entering the film, not only as a new screenwriter (Michael Laughlin still gets co-writer credit) but as an entirely new character.
Following numerous missed release dates, it hit theaters not as an event but an instant cautionary tale. Is it as bad as you’ve...