Elizabethtown

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yet another traumatized twentysomething with a glamourous profession coming from the big city forced by circumstances to return to a red-state home for a short trip that turns into an opportunity to confront their demons and disappointments and meet a new love interest.

The twist here is that the protagonist is returning, as John Denver says, "to a home he never knew before," going to his father's Kentucky hometown, to collect the body of his father who has died among his friends and extended family, who the protagonist barely knows.

Cameron Crowe is revisiting a lot of his favorite themes and styles and drenches this in his record collection.

[RealityChuck]

Very unimpressive. The final road trip sequence goes on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and then ends up exactly the way you knew it would end up when he started. The rest of the film never rises above mediocre.

A real disappointment.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, there should be a French award for most excruciating denoument.

That sequence also gets some sort of Forest Gump Award for soundtrack padding.

[Elster88]

I kind of like Funeral for a Friend. It's relaxing...and yet not.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm certainly not knocking any of the selections; just the cinematic abuse.

[Vic Sage]

i love Crowe as a filmmaker, but i heard this one was a dog. I've been reluctant to see it.