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Elizabethtown
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.
Release : | 2005 |
Rating : | 6.3 |
Studio : | Paramount, Cruise/Wagner Productions, Vinyl Films, |
Crew : | Art Department Coordinator, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Orlando Bloom Kirsten Dunst Susan Sarandon Alec Baldwin Bruce McGill |
Genre : | Drama Comedy Romance |
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Very well executed
That was an excellent one.
Simply A Masterpiece
An Exercise In Nonsense
This is the kinda movie that keeps you wondering on the worst of days such a beautiful message is passed on for workaholics i mean people don't realize their life passing by so soon unless someone is gone for ever. this movie reminds it's viewers the sole purpose of literally doing anything which is to lead a happy life acting was great there were really touching moments maybe that's why it made me so emotional and happy at the same time....definitely worth watching
This is one of my all-time favorite films. I can watch it over and over again every year.it is insightful to the plight of chasing your callit is encouraging in the pursuit of truly being yourselfit is a great road trip film with inspiring stops and killer music - top notchit reminds you to love your parents while they are around(even if you don't have the best relationship with them)it is one of the best romantic comedy movies that isn't sappy.Orlando Bloom is funny, impacting and emotional without being sappy.Kirsten Dunst is authentic, charming, vulnerable and loving.The entire movie has a nice mixture of stupid funny and heartfelt inspiration.Again, I love this movie. Watch i when you're not going to be interrupted. Put up with some of the silliness and get ready to be moved. You'll love it too!
This movie wants you to like it so much. It tries with such great earnest, that you will throw your hands up and just let it have its way. Typical of most Cameron Crowe movies, this is LOADED with expired music hoping you get the references. Also, this may be a record, but it's padded with so many point-of-view from characters that look directly in camera. A lot, even for a Crowe movie.There's something awfully sad about this movie. It has nothing to do with the funeral, and more to do with the underlining psychosis Bloom goes through in his flippant attempt at suicide. Should we be laughing at his contraption? Should we not. Should be be laughing when it's put on hold so he can go learn about his father. Not really. In fact, I felt I knew LESS about the man than coming into it. A MacGuffin...maybe. Anyway, the Dunst character is so overzealous and pushy, to a point where you really sensed her darkness that projects light. I knew women like these. I stayed away from women like these. In any other movie, she'd have an anvil dropped on her. In this one, it seems to be passed off as charming. It's not.Overall, I'd say it was a mid-level movie. It has the basic stuff down, however, missing a lot of fundamentals. Such as story arc. A slight change in demeanor (Bloom's flatline acting needs a shot of adrenaline).This feels too close (on a personal level) for Crowe to remove what may've played well in real- life from a good movie.
There is a great sucking sound as young corporate player Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) realizes he is going to get fired. His mega company gave him carte blanche as a wiz kid to go ahead with a sneaker idea that are foot Edsels and he loses his company millions. Fired , his ingenious attempt at suicide fails in a Buster Keaton silent movie type way (Buster jumped into a six- inch lake and it was tragically funny) but here the joke is a mechanical knife that goes limp at the critical moment. To add insult to injury Drew's long lost father dies; Drew's family phones and pleads for him to take care of funeral arrangements. Nary a tear is shed as Drew dutifully books a flight to small Elizabethtown via Lu'ville, Kentucky. As he is in the air, flight attendant (or angel?) Claire's (Kirsten Dunst) mouth twists in amusement as she sees him as the only passenger in coach and cajoles him to move up to first class to save her tootsies wear and tear, while her eyes make merry snapshots of life's piquant moments. At deboarding she awards him "wings" along with her phone number and some great driving instructions which he intends to ignore. He soon gets royally lost in Kentucky and calls upon her, and slowly realizes that she is infusing energy into him with her Cheshire cat like grin which she uses to baffle all detractors. Here the plot nose dives as if a seven- forty- seven full of Southern family members all crash in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and everyone is walking around in a numb daze while the story tries to catch up with the tragedy of not having much of a third act; but never mind, the story is the journey.