Elizabethtown (film)
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| Elizabethtown | |
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 Promotional poster for Elizabethtown |
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| Directed by | Cameron Crowe |
| Produced by | Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner |
| Written by | Cameron Crowe |
| Starring | Orlando Bloom Kirsten Dunst Susan Sarandon Alec Baldwin Jessica Biel |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | October 14, 2005 |
| Running time | 123 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~ US$45,000,000 |
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Elizabethtown is a 2005 film written and directed by Cameron Crowe starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. Orlando Bloom plays a shoe designer visiting his father's hometown in Kentucky in the days following the father's death, and Kirsten Dunst plays a flight attendant. Alec Baldwin has a small role as a CEO of an athletic shoe company, and Susan Sarandon appears as a grieving widow. The film features dozens of contemporary rock songs, and Kentucky natives My Morning Jacket portray a reunited fictional rock group named Ruckus.
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[edit] Plot
Hours after a ruinous product debut that becomes a devastating career move, suicidal industrial designer Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) learns of his father's sudden death. As the only son, Drew must travel to their small hometown of Elizabethtown, Kentucky to attend to his father's memorial. On the flight to Kentucky, Drew meets Claire (Kirsten Dunst), a quick-witted flight attendant, who helps him navigate the rough waters ahead and proves that amazing things happen when you least expect them.
[edit] Credits
[edit] Production
- Director, Writer, Producer - Cameron Crowe
- Producers - Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner
- Editor - David Moritz
- Original Music - Nancy Wilson
[edit] Cast
- Orlando Bloom as Drew Baylor
- Kirsten Dunst as Claire Colburn
- Susan Sarandon as Hollie Baylor
- Jessica Biel as Ellen Kishmore
- Judy Greer as Heather Baylor
- Alec Baldwin as Phil
- Emily Rutherfurd as Cindy Hasboro
- Jed Rees as Chuck Hasboro
- Paul Schneider as Jessie Baylor
- Bruce McGill as Bill Banyon
- Allison Munn as Desk Girl Charlotte
- Dan Biggers as Uncle Roy
- Loudon Wainwright III as Uncle Dale
- Alice Marie Crowe as Aunt Lena
- Paula Deen as Aunt Dora
- Patty Griffin as Laurie
- Billy Tencza as Brett
- Tim Devitt as Mitch Baylor
[edit] Trivia
- Part of the movie was filmed at the Oklahoma City National Memorial in Oklahoma City.
- Jane Fonda was cast as Susan Sarandon's part, but had to bow out.
- Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott, Colin Hanks, Chris Evans, and James Franco all auditioned for Orlando Bloom's part. Kutcher was actually hired for the role of Drew, but director Cameron Crowe decided during filming that he really wasn't right for the film and Kutcher left the project.
- Jessica Biel auditioned for the female lead.
- The rain during the cemetery scene was unexpected.
- This is Orlando Bloom's first starring role in a wide release movie where he is cast in a modern day setting and speaks with an American accent.
- There is a character named Ben who is mentioned as a love interest of Claire. In the original cut of the film, Ben is revealed to be Claire's brother.
- Recognizable settings for scenes shot in Louisville, Kentucky include the Brown Hotel and Cave Hill Cemetery and Arboretum. Although the exterior, lobby, and corridors of the Brown Hotel are seen, a passable replica of the Brown Hotel's Crystal Ball Room was recreated on a soundstage (doubtless because of the fire and water effects used.)
- The movie takes considerable liberties with regional geography, placing Louisville and Nashville, Tennessee approximately half as far apart as they are in reality, with other spurious geographical relations implied.
- The film shares some characteristics with the 2004 film Garden State in that both main characters are males who travel from the west coast to the east coast for a parent's funeral. Also, both of the main characters end up falling in love with a girl when they had no intentions of starting a relationship.
- Although the title of the movie is Elizabethtown, most of the small town scenes were actually filmed in Versailles, Kentucky. In some scenes there are people in the background wearing yellow and black shirts which are the colors of Woodford County High School, which is located in Versailles. None of the four public high schools in Hardin County, the county in which Elizabethtown is located, use these colors. A few scenes portraying distinctive landmarks were filmed in Elizabethtown itself.
- Footage of the Boeing 747 featured in "Elizabethtown" is actually re-used footage used in Airport 1975.
[edit] External links
| Films directed by Cameron Crowe |
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| Say Anything • Singles • Jerry Maguire • Almost Famous • Vanilla Sky • Elizabethtown |
