Forbidden love and impossible dreams intertwine when the handsome working-class Holt brothers are drawn to the beautiful and wealthy Abbott sisters. Sparks fly, passions flare, and family loyalties are suddenly torn and tested against a small town backdrop of social boundaries and dark secrets. Starring an all-star cast including Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Liv Tyler and Jennifer Connelly, Inventing the Abbotts re-invents the trials and triumphs of coming of age in a time of innocence that was anything but.