Elizabethtown is a 2005film 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.
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.
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.
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