Movie Review: Elizabethtown
Oct 14, 2005 - Lynn Barker
Wanna see Orlando as a modern guy... no swords, no bow and arrows no armor? Then this might be the film for you......or not.
In Elizabethtown, Orlando Bloom plays Drew Baylor, a young designer who becomes suicidal when the sneaker he created was such a humongous flop that it almost bankrupted the company. His boss (Alec Baldwin) even tells him "You may cause an entire generation to return to bare feet".
Drew is trying to invent a suicide machine when his sister Heather (Judy Greer) phones to tell him that his dad has died back in Kentucky. While unbalanced mom Hollie (Susan Sarandon) stays behind frantically trying to put her life back together, Drew flies to Elizabethtown to make funeral arrangements and meets cheery, optimistic-to-a-fault flight attendant Claire (Kirsten Dunst) who flirts with him like crazy. After Drew meets his wacky family, who want dad to be buried rather than cremated, Kirsten pops up again on the phone to guide the lost boy through this sad personal journey.
It is Claire who convinces Drew to take a final road trip with his dad's ashes (the trip he never got to take with "live" dad). She's sure that, once this lost soul finds himself... he'll be ready to hook up with her.





