Elizabethtown, Crowe’s 2005 movie about a prodigal son’s return to his Southern hometown for his father’s funeral, is almost worth the price of admission for its denouement, which is the road trip taken by disgraced shoe designer Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom), with an urn of his father’s ashes. It plays up one of Crowe’s greatest directorial strengths — his mastery of the crucial rock sound track, this time featuring tunes by Elton John and Tom Petty — which includes the spreading of the ashes. The route, a veritable treasure map of Americana drawn for Baylor by flight attendant Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst), ends at the “Second Largest Farmers Market in the World” (a fictional location, farmers market fans), where there’s a note instructing him to “look for the girl with a red hat.” This being a Cameron Crowe movie, he finds her.
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