Elizabethtown is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. Alec Baldwin has a small role as a CEO of an athletic shoe company and Susan Sarandon appears as a grieving widow. The film was released to neither critical acclaim nor commercial success. Drew Baylor is the designer of the Späsmodica shoe, a world-famously hyped but flawed new product that his boss informs him will lose $972 million and is "a disaster of mythic proportions, [] a folktale told to others that makes other people feel more alive because it... didn't happen to them". After he is fired, Drew's beautiful girlfriend Ellen breaks up with him. Drew goes to his apartment, defeated, and attempts to commit suicide . His sister Heather phones at just that moment to tell Drew that their father has just died and he needs to go to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, to bring the body back home. At the airport, Drew's sister and mother tell him they wish to cremate his father's body.
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| Release date: | September 4, 2005 |
| Directed by: | Cameron Crowe |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 123 Minutes |
| Producer: | Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner |
| Editor: | David Moritz |
| Music by: | Nancy Wilson |
| Cinematography: | John Toll |
| Screenplay by: | Cameron Crowe |
| Estimated budget: | $45,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |