Elizabethtown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYWlAiFypwo

PG-13 ‧ 2005 ‧ Comedy, Drama, Romance ‧ 2h 3min

During a hometown memorial for his Kentucky-born father, a young man begins an unexpected romance with a too-good-to-be-true stewardess.

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ABOUT

Elizabethtown is a 2005 American romantic tragicomedy film written and directed by Cameron Crowe and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Its story follows a young shoe designer, Drew Baylor, who is fired from his job after costing his company an industry record of nearly one billion dollars. On the verge of suicide, Drew receives a call from his sister telling him that their father has died while visiting their former hometown of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Deciding to postpone his suicide and bring their father's body back to Oregon, he then becomes involved in an unexpected romance with Claire Colburn, whom he meets near the start of his journey. Elizabethtown stars Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Alec Baldwin, and Susan Sarandon.

The film was produced by Cruise/Wagner Productions and Vinyl Films. It premiered September 4, 2005, at the 2005 Venice Film Festival and was released worldwide on October 14, 2005. It grossed $10.6 million in its opening weekend and $52.2 million worldwide, against a budget of $45 million. It received generally negative reviews from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and mixed reviews on Metacritic.

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CREDITS

Director

Cameron Crowe

Writer

Cameron Crowe

Stars

Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon

Companies

Paramount Pictures, Cruise/Wagner Productions, Vinyl Films

DETAILS

Released

2005-10-14

Runtime

2h 3min

Rating

PG-13

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

CONTEXT

Countries

USA

Languages

English

Awards

Awards, 2 wins & 4 nominations

Keywords

manic pixie dream girl,publicity,bad publicity,quote,cubicle

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RATINGS

6.3/10

45%

6.2/10

28%

5.4/10

CRITICS REVIEWS

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ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
“What's sad is that Elizabethtown contains two GREAT sequences.”

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The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
“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.”

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L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
“Crowe's undeniable gifts -- his well-crafted individual scenes and his love for his characters -- are more evident here than his flaws.”

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Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
“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.”

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The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
“Tedious humor and sentimentality bury what could have been a pretty good road picture.”

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Unknown SourceVariety
“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.”

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Village VoiceLaura Sinagra
“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.”

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Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
“It's a mess, absolutely, more a collage than a narrative.”

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New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
“Crowe was going for something magical in all this, but the film is so affected and mannered, so preciously in love with itself, that it's painful to watch. Scenes go on and on, and when you think the movie's over, it goes on and on some more.”

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Chicago TribuneNo Title
“So many romantic comedies come and go without making the slightest impression. Elizabethtown is not one of them; I found it galling.”