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0024543012153. Pre-Owned: Good condition. DVD. Run time: 110 mins. Language: English. The lives of two closely linked small town Illinois families dangerously intersect in this domestic drama set in the 1950s based on a short story by Sue Miller and directed by Pat O Connor. Though they are from the wrong side of the tracks the working class brothers Jacey (Billy Crudup) and Doug Holt (Joaquin Phoenix) are in love with the wealthy and beautiful Abbott sisters. Shy and quiet Doug who worships his womanizing brother has eyes for the iconoclastic Pam (Liv Tyler) but Jacey s affections are more calculating; he s interested in whichever Abbott sister is interested in him. At first this is Eleanor (Jennifer Connelly) the wild sister but eventually Jacey sets his sights on the divorced oldest sister Alice (Joanna Going). For Jacey his conquest of the Abbotts is a form of economic revenge as he believes that the head of the family Lloyd (Will Patton) stole a patent that made him rich from the