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Elizabethtown

2005 · Movie · 123 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer27%as of 2026-01-11
  • Rotten Tomatoes average4.8/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic45/100as of 2025-10-08

What it is

Elizabethtown is a 2005 American romantic tragicomedy film written and directed by Cameron Crowe. Its story follows a young shoe designer, Drew Baylor, who is fired from his job after costing his company an industry record of nearly one billion dollars. On the verge of suicide, Drew receives a call from his sister telling him that their father has died while visiting their former hometown of Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

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Genres
Romance / Comedy
Original language
English

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