ELIZABETHTOWN is a romantic comedy about love, about life, about success. The plot begins with a desperate guy, Drew Baylor (played by Orlando Bloom), that after doing a huge "fiasco" in his professional career is about to commit suicide! When he's ready to do that, his cellular phone starts calling: it's his sister saying their father is dead! His father was back on his hometown (Elizabethtown) to see his family when he had a heart attack, and now Drew's mother wants that Drew go to that town and bring his father's body back to where they live. He goes, and in his flight he meets a stewardess called Claire (played by Kirsten Dunst)
That girl will change his life and the way he sees the world!
I enjoyed this movie but especially the character Clair
I think that a girl like that is every guy's dream! She has everything that is positive and beautiful in this life! She's gorgeous, funny, imaginative, optimistic, encouraging, and she was right there at the right time helping that guy's life, showing him that he couldn't be beaten by failure! Life goes on! In order to create such rich and wonderful character would be necessary a great actress and a great performance
and that was found! Kirsten Dunst is perfect! I always liked her as an actress, but after this role I shall like her even more!
I also appreciated the portrayal of the "deep America" which is done in the film, showing us that the USA isn't just a country with large cities. It also has its deep and rustic side
The soundtrack is nice too
However, there's this thing I didn't like so much in the movie (and that's why I'm scoring it just 7/10 instead of 8/10), and that is: the ending! Come on, with such nice plot, created with so much imagination, providing us fun, entertainment and some unexpected situations, for almost two hours, would be really necessary such expected, banal, and "terribly seen before" romantic ending?! I guess not; and in my "modest opinion" I think the film would be so much greater if it had a different and more imaginative ending
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