Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 169
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 122
This story of a floundering shoe designer who returns home for a family tragedy gets lost in undeveloped plot lines and lackluster performances.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 30
This story of a floundering shoe designer who returns home for a family tragedy gets lost in undeveloped plot lines and lackluster performances.
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A young man in need of a fresh start gets one under highly unexpected circumstances in this emotionally resonant comedy drama from writer and director Cameron Crowe. Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) is considered the big success story in his family, having moved away from the small Kentucky town where he was born to California, where he works as a designer for Mercury, the nation's biggest athletic shoe company. But success has begun to elude Drew -- his most recent design was a resounding flop that
Oct 14, 2005 Wide
Feb 7, 2006
$26.8M
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (176) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (127) | DVD (25)
The hero's nuclear family and kooky rural relatives are so sketchily conceived that none of the intended comedy works, and the balance of the movie is given over to one of Crowe's sugary romances.
So curious, and such a disappointment.
The film's problems lie with the lack of spark between a wired Dunst and a bland Bloom.
Leaves one adrift on a raft of morose questions. How could this vacuous movie have got made? Didn't anyone at Paramount, which paid for the film, read the script? And also: What in the world has happened to Cameron Crowe?
Cameron Crowe is a romantic at heart and there's nothing wrong with that.
Elizabethtown never quite feels like itself, whatever that self might be; it's as if another, subtly but significantly different movie were desperately trying to break through its skin.
It's the fashion today for interpersonal dramas to go for bathos and high-stakes emotional conflict as characters cry out their darkest secrets to each other ... but director Cameron Crowe has taken a different tack.
Heartfelt and intolerable
Orlando Bloom gives a typically abysmal performance as a man-boy who doesn't know if he's old enough to shave yet.
Tired romantic comedy full of cliches. Teens and up.
Awash with sentimentality, this meandering tale falls way short of Crowe's usual standards.
A meandering mood piece, with no tension, no chemistry, no character development, no plot and no point.
A meandering mood piece, with no tension, no chemistry, no character development, no plot and no point.
Crowe's capable of much better than this; let's hope he gets back on track with the next one.
The performances are solid . . . but it's Kentucky that really steals the show. Crowe paints the eccentricity of the locals with an affectionate brush.
The entire enterprise smacks of wish-fulfilment provoked by middle-age male guilt. Uplifting, it most certainly ain't.
Embaraçosamente infantil, o filme ainda deixa claro que, além da falta de carisma, Bloom é um ator inexpressivo que não possui o menor timing cômico.
I didn't expect that this film would be this good, but I was surprised. I thought that this would be your regular run of the mill chick flick, it really wasn't. The film was a great blend of comedy and drama and the performances were well done. Cameron Crowe has made a terrific film with a different style than your
September 7, 2011
Super Reviewer
Confusing at times and not really that romantic. It was alright, but nothing exceptional.
June 23, 2011Super Reviewer
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