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| Director
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Cameron Crowe
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| Starring
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Kirsten Dunst, Orlando Bloom,
Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Judy Greer,
Jessica Biel, Loudon Wainwright III, Paula
Dean, Paul Schneider, Bruce McGill, Gaillard
Sartain |
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| The plot of
Elizabethtown |
During
his trip back to Kentucky for his father's memorial,
a dejected young man (Bloom) finds inspiration
in the form of a flight attendant (Dunst). |
Elizabethtown
Movie Review
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Review by LESLIE
FELPERIN:
Returning to his romantic comedy roots after "Vanilla
Sky," helmer Cameron CroweCameron Crowe throws
a friendly party with "Elizabethtown," laying
on colorful characters, witty banter and a constant
stream of vintage tunes. However, bash lasts too long,
and guests try too hard to have fun, and pic's busy,
neo-screwball script -- about a shoe designer planning
his father's funeral in a Kentucky town while falling
for a perky stewardess met en route -- suffers from
arch editing and a surfeit of whimsical subplots. Modest
B.O.B.O. looks likely.Although presumably in development
for some time, basic set-up sounds like a sunnier, studio
version of Zach BraffZach Braff's indie hit "Garden
State," which beat "Elizabethtown" to
the punch by a year and a half. "State" was
a similar tale of a depressed young man who travels
back East for a parent's funeral and ends up finding
love with a gorgeous, hip chick. But where Braff's pic
was riddled with slacker angst and featured characters
with jagged edges, nearly everyone in "Elizabethtown"
is as gosh-darn nice as a warm sunny day...more..
Review By David
Edelstein:
There are superficial
similarities in their use of music, but it would be
hard to find a pair of directors with temperaments as
dissimilar as Cameron Crowe, of Elizabethtown (Paramount),
and Tony Scott, of Domino (New Line). Scott is vulgar,
unscrupulous, controlling, with one hairy hand on the
audience's throat. Crowe is—well, I keep returning
to that heartfelt, archetypal scene in his directorial
debut, Say Anything, in which Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack)
holds his boombox aloft, blasting Peter Gabriel's "In
Your Eyes" for Diane (Ione Skye), the object of
his affection. Like his alter ego, Crowe doesn't seem
completely confident that he can convey the depth of
his emotion with mere words (or images). But as his
autobiographical Almost Famous made clear, he has a
deep connection to rock music, and he passionately hopes
that it can help to usher the audience into his inner
world....More..
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