Quite why director Pat O'Connor would want to remake Circle Of Friends all over again (but set it in small-town Illinois) is a bit of a mystery. Yet that's precisely what Inventing The Abbotts is. It's set in the same year (1957), has the same problems (sex and no sex), the same set-up (narration by a grown-up nostalging over teenage years) and the same laid-back quaintness.
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