Elizabethtown

Name: Elizabethtown
Director: Cameron Crowe
Released: 2005

Cameron Crowe

2005

3.00

Synopsis

Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.

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Orlando BloomDrew Baylor
Kirsten DunstClaire Colburn
Susan SarandonHollie Baylor
Alec BaldwinPhil DeVoss
Bruce McGillBill Banyon
Judy GreerHeather Baylor
Jessica BielEllen Kishmore
Paul SchneiderJessie Baylor
Loudon Wainwright IIIUncle Dale
Gailard SartainCharles Dean

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ReelViews
What's sad is that Elizabethtown contains two GREAT sequences.
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The A.V. Club
Only a truly great director can make a film of high artistic merit, filled with personality and memorable scenes, that's still a borderline disaster. (Think One From The Heart or 1941.) So the heartfelt and woefully miscalculated Elizabethtown may be the film that marks Cameron Crowe's arrival as a truly great director.
60
L.A. Weekly
Crowe's undeniable gifts -- his well-crafted individual scenes and his love for his characters -- are more evident here than his flaws.
58
Entertainment Weekly
Think of Elizabethtown as Cameron Crowe's rambling amateur travelogue, one from a well-liked professional filmmaker momentarily so distracted by private notes scrawled on his souvenir map that he gets lost en route to telling his story of self-renewal. This undershaped, overlong warmedy is an homage to the memory of his late father.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Tedious humor and sentimentality bury what could have been a pretty good road picture.
50
Variety
Although rich in screwball silliness and sharp one-liners, film lacks the narrative drive one finds in the classic comedies of Preston Sturges, Frank Capra and Billy Wilder, whom Crowe always seems to try to emulate.
50
Village Voice
Where the earlier flick (Garden State), in its smallness, felt like an honest representation of writer-director-star Zach Braff's struggles with notions of home, Crowe's is a hodgepodge of great ideas and moods in search of a plot to enrich.
50
Dallas Observer
It's a mess, absolutely, more a collage than a narrative.

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