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[Xetox]

Great movie, I have to say I did not want to watch this movie, my wife put in in our queue. I was able to put off watching it for almost a week until last night we had no other movies to watch so well....I lost the battle. Anyway I am glad I did! It a great flick, Cameron Crowe did a great job picking the music for this movie, I mean it kept me singing, and eyes on the screen the whole time.



Well anyway here is a short review, I would say for anyone who has not seen this movie to rent it!



Elizabethtown tells the story of Drew Baylor, a shoe designer who designs the world's worst shoe and causes his company (headed by Alec Baldwin) to lose just a little short of a billion dollars. On the heels of this colossal failure (or fiasco as it's called in the movie) Drew comes up with an inventive and comical way to off himself to save himself the embarrassment of living 1 second longer. However, his life is saved by a phone call from his sister telling him that their father died while visiting family in Elizabethtown. So, rather than dying himself, Drew must drag his sorry ass to Kentucky to collect his father and prepare for the funeral. While on the airplane to Louisville (pronounced Lou-uh-vul) enroute to Elizabethtown Drew meets a quirky stewardess (is it politically correct to call them that anymore?) named Claire (Kirsten Dunst) who figures prominently in the rest of the movie. Once he makes his way to Elizabethtown, Drew reconnects with his father's side of the family, all with different ideas of how to handle the funeral. (Burial or cremation, etc...) Since Drew himself is lost in his own failure, he's not quite sure what to do. Desparate for somebody to talk to, he calls Claire and the two share an all-night telephone call discussing everything under the sun (or the moon in this case) before they finally meet. From here, the movie becomes all about Drew and Claire's budding romance and Drew's learning a thing or two about his family and himself while coming to terms with his own shortcomings and failures.

[toomanyshoes]

Crowe is a natural at picking great soundtracks. "Almost Famous" had the most fitting music behind it. I can't wait to see Elizabethtown.

[Xetox]

You'll love it, you can J should go rent it this weekend!