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MOVIE REVIEW
Elizabethtown
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon
Written and Directed by: Cameron Crowe
Paramount Pictures
Everyone wants to like a Cameron Crowe film -- Singles, Almost Famous, Say Anything - the witty romantic, yet wistful, awkward romantic films that have characters in them to which anyone can relate.
Now here's Elizabethtown, a more personal film for Crowe because it deals with his home area in Kentucky. It's his homage to middle America. While quite melancholy, it's sweet at times.
Drew is a designer at a large shoe company who just spend almost a decade on a shoe that flopped and lost the company almost a billion dollars and subsequently his lucrative job. He contemplates suicide until he receives a call from his sister that his father has died and he journeys to Elizabethtown meeting spunky flight attendant Claire (Dunst) en route, who tries to make him see the sunny side of life.
This visit to his father's hometown provides him with much needed self-examination and he learns that simplicity can lead to happiness.
Elizabethtown has some flaws but some touching moments, some sweet moments and some funny parts. Sarandon is superb as Drew's mother and is hilarious at her husband's memorial service.
Bloom and Dunst have a wonderful offbeat relationship that is realistic and genuine: it unfolds naturally. Elizabethtown is a pleasurable little film.
Grade: ***
By Amy Steele
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