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(3.5) "A fiasco is a disaster of epic proportions."
Drew Baylor learns the hard way that success is the only measure of a man, at least in the corporate world. And he has just proved himself a colossal failure, his athletic shoe design, touted as revolutionary, the embarrassment of The Mercury Shoe Corporation. After eight years spent working on the design, all of the orders have been returned, the company humiliated. Drew bravely falls on his sword to protect the company from further financial distress. Leaving his job, his whole world has changed from a dream to a nightmare. Even his girlfriend, another Mercury employee, turns her back on him, opting for greener pastures and a new employee hire with more potential. Drew is devastated but resigned. <
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>Just when he thinks things couldn't get any worse, Drew receives a phone call that his father has died and he must go to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and bring his father home to Oregon. Befriended on the airplane by an enthusiastic stewardess, Claire Colburn, the befuddled Drew revisits a past he can barely remember. Caught up in the family melodrama, Drew has no idea that Claire offers the means of his salvation, her insouciant manner a balm to his increasingly troubled spirit. This combination of unsettling road trip into the past and Drew's damaged sense of self offer him a new perspective, a journey that will alter his direction through life. <
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>Subtleties are apparent in the play, as Crowe gives explicit stage directions, the rhythm of the story building, a contrast between the tensions of the funeral and Drew's need for a time out from family pressures. Not yet translated into specific personalities on screen, the manuscript lends itself to the imagination. The problem is that the story doesn't have resonance, the scattered scenes of family discussions over the disposition of the body, Drew's too-intense-too-soon relationship with Claire, his lack of connection to his father or the Kentucky relatives, all are as disconnected as overheard conversations, without inciting sufficient interest to care about these people or this young man. What may have been an intensely personal experience to the author just doesn't translate into a meaningful story. One man's awakening fails to speak a universal language. Crowe includes a few pages of an on-site diary from shooting the film. How ever admirable Crowe's intentions, Elizabethtown fails to inspire. Luan Gaines/ 2005. <
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