Elizabethtown

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  • Opened October 14, 2005 
  • 2 hr 18 min
  • PG-13 | language and some sexual references
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+. More on child suitability

  • At the request of his ailing father, Drew Baylor returns to his small Kentucky hometown after he is fired for a mistake that costs his firm millions. Drew has also lost his girlfriend and his trip home is not a welcome one. On his flight home, he meets flight attendant Claire Colburn, and their ensuing romance helps guide him through his rough transition with a fresh perspective. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Judy Greer, Jessica Biel
  • Director: Cameron Crowe
  • Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Favorite movie of all time

by dakonaisakoala

So I hate Orlando Bloom as an actor but I love Cameron Crowe and my family is from E-Town so I gave it a go. It is a brilliant movie. Many people criticize it (not sure why) but it was fantastic....

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

Nowhere near one of Crowe's great films (like "Almost Famous"), but it is sweet and good-hearted and has some real laughs. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa 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. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter
| Ray Bennett

Tedious humor and sentimentality bury what could have been a pretty good road picture. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Wesley Morris

Audiences of a certain hipster disposition, in fact, will see Elizabethtown and pine for Zach Braff's ''Garden State," the movie to which Elizabethtown bears an unfortunate and inferior resemblance. Read full review

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