Some movies are years in the making.
Town and Country was three years just in being released. Town and Country , which was supposed to come out in 1998, is the kind of movie that makes people who like to do Hollywood hatchet jobs go out and buy whole new sets of cutlery. Filming started before the script was finished. There were reports of an escalating budget and on-set discord. New scenes were added, requiring members of the cast to reassemble after they had already gone on to other projects, thus increasing the delays.