'Elizabethtown': Just plain creepy
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

Judging from what's onscreen in "Elizabethtown," Cameron Crowe apparently came up with a really spectacular soundtrack and then remembered he had to attach a movie to it. Thus, this hugely disappointing film, which goes beyond blunder into something akin to meltdown. A fiasco like this is simply not what we expect from the writer-director of "Almost Famous" and "Jerry Maguire." Read the full review

TO SUM UP
Once a rising star at an athletic shoe company, Drew Baylor has just been fired when he receives the news that his father has died. His mother assigns him the job of transporting his dad's body to Oregon from Elizabethtown, Ky. That's when Drew meets Claire, a flight attendant with a mission to help someone in trouble. Drew becomes her next project.

FILM FACTS ...
Paramount Pictures
'Elizabethtown'

Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Biel, Judy Greer
Run time: 133 minutes
Release date: Oct. 14, 2005
Rating: PG-13 for language and some sexual references.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: D-
"Be still, my gag reflex."

Austin American-Statesman: 3 of 5 stars
"The film's enormous heart... might win you over."

Cox News Service: B-
"Excellent music and some funny and genuinely touching moments — if you can endure the awful first third of the movie."

The Palm Beach Post: B
"Elizabethtown's emotional finale ... is a valentine to America's heartland."


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