Elizabethtown

Elizabethtown, written and directed by Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous) is about Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom, mmmm) a shoe designer who has just lost the shoe company almost one billion dollars and his girlfriend Ellen (Jennifer Biel) leaves him. Things aren’t going so great. He plans to commit suicide (in a very imaginative way) but is interrupted by a phone call from his sister Heather (Judy Greer) telling him that their father has passed away. Drew makes his way to Elizabethtown, Kentucky where his father grew up to take his body back home to Oregon to be buried. On the flight over he meets a very talkative flight attendant, Claire (Kirsten Dunst).
Meanwhile back at home, his mother Hollie (Susan Sarandon) is dealing with grief in her own way. She starts to lean cooking, mechanics and tap dancing.
When Drew gets to Elizabeth town, he meets the rest of his family, all of whom want his father to be cremated – not buried.
Watching the flick – it reminded me a lot of Zach Braff’s Garden State – family member dies, prodigal son returns home, meets girl, falls in love with girl, comes to some realisation about his family, his life etc. It was a bit too familiar. And does Cameron Crowe like road trips! After spending most of Almost Famous on a bus, Elizabethtown spends the last past of the film in a car as Drew makes his way home via a map that Claire has made for him.
Summing up – Elizabethtown was a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon.