Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) is a hot shot shoe designer who somehow has created a 1 billion dollar loss for his company. His career is heading for the sewer. He is thinking of suicide when he gets news that his estranged father, a war hero has died.

Drew goes down to Kentucky for the funeral arrangements and meet his extended family that he has not seen in a while. It seems his mother dos not want to attend meet his dad's family.

On the late night flight Drew meets the charming and beguiling flight attendant Claire (Kirsten Dunst). He carries on his relationship with her while he is in Kentucky.

Elizabethtown wants to be whimsical. The word Drew was looking for when he saw his dad's face in the coffin. Despite its kooky characters such as a tap dancing mom, it comes across as dull and vapid.

I was bored and uninterested in the story. Cameron Crowe even fails to inspire with his musical choices. The film is a mess of ideas with Crowe being too self indulgent.

Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) is a shoe designer who is taking all the blame for a $972 million fiasco. The shoe is a joke and he's going to be publicly humiliated. Then he gets the news that his father died. He needs to go to Ketucky to get his body. On the flight there, he meets lovely flight attendant Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst).

This is a wonderful near miss from writer/director Cameron Crowe. There are great ideas in this movie, but it gets hampered by very bad fakeness. The first, the most obvious, and the most annoying is the shoe idea. What kind of shoe would cost a company $1 billion? The thing in the movie is a complete miss. It's obviously trying to be quirky, but it has no relationship with reality. Cameron could have used something more real like a car. Shoes are sold by celebrities. Everybody knows this since Jordan. Maybe if it was toxic to wear and people got sick from wearing them. Maybe then it would be more realistic.

Once the movie gets to Kentucky, the in-laws are a grab bag. Mostly they are fillers. The movie don't seem to understand this. It spends way too much time with them. On the hand, Susan Sarandon and Judy Greer playing his mother and sister have the right kind of tone. They are a bit of comic relief. And Sarandon has one of the better eulogies.

Then we get to Kirsten Dunst. She plays the ingénues perfectly well. Of course, she's the origins of 'The Manic Pixie Dream Girl'. I wouldn't call her manic. She should have been called Magical. It's a movie device.

There are also too many montages. I'm not specifically calling out the last part of the movie although it could be shorter. Cameron Crowe would be better off saving some of that for another movie. I'm talking about using music instead of dialog. I'm talking about using snippets of phrases instead of a conversation. The night Drew and Claire talked all night on the phone is probably where they fell in love. It deserves a well written exchange.

Cameron is trying for something beautiful and poetic. At times, this movie has that. But it keeps on oscillating between a hit and miss.

After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should bring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst),who changes his view and perspective of life.

"Elizabethtown" is one of the most deceptive movies I have ever seen. With the names of Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, Alec Baldwin and Orlando Bloom, I expected a good movie. However, the long and boring story is a complete fiasco. The initial situation, with a young executive provoking alone a loss of almost one billion dollars is surreal in the world of business. The situations are mostly at least weird, and Susan Sarandon speech in the funeral ceremony is simply ridiculous. The music score is the best in this film, therefore better off the CD with the soundtrack. This flick gave me the sensation that would never end, so tedious and long it is. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "Tudo Acontece em Elizabethtown" ("Everything Happens in Elizabethtown")