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Starring: Orlando Bloom,  Kirsten Dunst,  Susan Sarandon,  Alec Baldwin,  Bruce McGill, 
Directed By: Cameron Crowe, 
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Release Date: 2005-10-14
Studio: Paramount
Format: Color,  DVD-Video,  Widescreen,  NTSC, 

Editorial Reviews and DVD Information

Product Description
A young man considering suicide after he is fired for losing his company thousands of dollars is given a new lease on life when he falls in love with a flight attendent on the way to his southern father's funeral which he is responsible for planning.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 2-AUG-2007
Media Type: DVD

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Elizabethtown has all of the elements of a great Cameron Crowe movie, but none of the Cameron Crowe vision that made Almost Famous work. It's mostly a series of sweet moments, each capped with the right song at the right time; in fact, the soundtrack is the real star of the movie, and the right song is all there is to piece together a film that is much less than the sum of its parts.

From the start of Elizabethtown, big contrasts are evoked: death and life, success and failure are side by side, so we're told. When the movie starts, Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) is experiencing failure and death in spades: the shoe he spent eight years designing for Mercury (a thinly-veiled copy of Nike) has been recalled, costing his company $972 million dollars. On the verge of a suicide attempt, he learns his father has died, and Drew flies to Kentucky to retrieve the body to Oregon for cremation. On the red-eye to Louisville he meets Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst), a perky flight att'ndant with a charming flair for cute lines ("I'm impossible to forget, but I’m hard to remember," she chirps). Once in Elizabethtown, Drew tries to plan a memorial while dealing with relatives who have their own agenda in addition to his manic family back in Oregon, all while facing the reality that in a few days he'll be known nationally as one of his industry's most legendary failures. Yet still he manages to connect with Claire on an all-night cell phone conversation--complete with the requisite watching of the sunrise--and to strike up a furtive romance.

So we now have death and life side by side. But despite these dramatic shifts, what sets up to be a roller coaster ride of a film flattens out to a milquetoast middle ground with no real life of its own. Drew Baylor has suffered two tragic personal losses in the course of one day, but you wouldn't know it from Bloom's lethargic performance. There's not much to Claire either. Her whole character is made up mostly of cutesy quotable lines and mysterious little smirks. In the end, Elizabethtown is a film that doesn't know what it wants to be, and unfortunately there's no payoff, other than a few memorable lines and a great soundtrack. --Dan Vancini

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Customer Reviews

Surrender To The Fantasy
I judge the value of a film by how much I can identify with the characters....I've been single my entire life because I never found a 'Clarie'.....That special soul with a third eye that sees things within others they may have missed themselves...I just sat back, turned off my critical eye and just enjoyed the journey into friendship, understanding, humor and eventually love..
Another aspect I enjoyed was Drew's realization that he actually loved his Dad more than he knew...
I realize that I may a voice in the wilderness but I loved the message of never giving up and need to Celebrate Life....and the feeling I was participating in a real love story

Ok movie!
I took my niece to see this movie at the theater when it first came out, mostly because he likes Orlando Bloom. I was quite surprised that I actually liked the movie as well. It is a very slow movie with alot of plots left undone, but the overall romance of the movie was pleasing to me. It's not a movie that I would want to watch over and over again but one that every once in a while, when you need to sit back and rediscover what's important in your life, I wouldn't mind watching. The acting for the most part is ok and they could have really made it a more touching movie but overall it's ok. I wouldn't discourage purchasing the movie, especially if you like any of the actors involved, but I wouldn't recommend it if you are looking for a meaty plot or any time of action.

A very nice love story
And the acting on this one is not at all bad either...
It is sort of a "low impact" love story
where friendship flowers into something more.
I liked it... it might even become a classic?
The family and the failure of his shoe open
the hero to a new way of seeing his life.
What he thought was the end, becomes their
beginning.

An interesting and fun romp!
I didn't think I'd like this film. Let's face it, it's billed and marketed as a 'chick flick'. However, the characters are tremendously sympathetic, the story is moving, and the 'place' is intriguing and likable.

Set in Elizabethtown Kentucky (an area I know little about), the film's premise is that in meeting his extended family, learning more about his father, beloved by the entire town, he's ready for a new chapter in his life. Orlando Bloom plays Drew Baylor, the character who has had a very bad week; first his shoe design totally flops (though I can't believe there was no test marketing to see that the shoe wouldn't sell), and then he gets bad news about his father.

On the plane to Elizabethtown, he meets a flight attendant played by the very likable Kirsten Dunst (Claire Colburn). She somehow knows that they are fated to be together, and she pretty much throws herself at him (maybe she loves shoes?). Anyway, the film proceeds on this thin plot, but the ride to the end is very likable, somewhat quirky (southern characters are almost always quirky, aren't they???), and always winning.

You are pulling for these two to end up together, in spite of a rocky path.

Four stars, mainly for the good feeling you'll be left with, and the over-all appealing characters, cinematography and art direction. Recommended, especially as a 'date' movie or as a change of pace from the usual multiplex fare.

For Those Who Think and Feel
After catching parts of this at the gym cardio cinema occasionally, I was only seeing the early scenes with Kirsten Dunst. I didn't notice the feel of the movie being so similar to Crowe's other films. They make you pay attention to other peoples feelings. In these early previews, I thought this may turn into a Fatal Attraction stalker movie. Claire annoyed me despite her beauty. My goodness was I wrong! It's a feel good movie. It's supposed to make you appreciate the time you are here being alive, and for a limited time. Dunst is magnetic, what guy wouldn't like her? The quirky characters, the culture shock for the Bloom character and the up-all-night pace was riveting. A keeper for my collection!

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