2005 · comedy · drama · romance
Elizabethtown
Directed by Cameron Crowe2h 3m2005
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.
Our read: Elizabethtown (2005) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
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