Promising young shoe-designer Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom)
quickly learns how failure feels when his innovative but foolish
design for a winged sneaker becomes the humiliation of the footwear
industry. Informed of the magnitude of his mistake, Drew applies
his design skills to the task of suicide by duct-taping a knife to
an exercise machine.
This melodramatic act is interrupted, however, when Drew receives a
call from his sister, informing him that his father has died while
on a trip to his home town of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Drews
mother, Hollie (Susan Sarandon), elects him to go deal with the
arrangements because he is the "responsible" and "successful" one.
The only passenger on his flight, Drew meets Claire (Kirsten
Dunst), a perky stewardess, who takes the opportunity to talk his
ear off despite his apparent desire for some personal space.
Supplying Drew with detailed hand-drawn maps, instructions for how
not to get lost, and three phone numbers where she can be reached,
Claire tenderly sends him off to confront a town full of relatives
he has never met.
Once in Elizabethtown, Drew is subjected to relentless family
wackiness from people who seem to have known his father better than
he did. Meanwhile, he stumbles into a hesitant romance with
neurotic but charming Claire, whose anal-retentive wisdom, lust for
life, and good taste in music may help Drew come to terms with his
newly diminished place in the world--and to see it as possibly a
better one
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