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Tuesday, February 7, 2006

This Week's Hot Video: 'Elizabethtown'

Cameron Crowe's movie is a cheerful, acerbic and strangely sophisticated screwball comedy about a young man (Orlando Bloom) suffering a titanic business failure, the loss of his father and the attentions of a flight attendant (Kirsten Dunst) out to deliver him from his downward spiral of pessimism.

It's that rare animal, a dialogue-driven comedy -- and a good one. While one or two scenes may seem a tad too talky, the script is mostly razor sharp. And while the film is impossibly optimistic about the blessings of failure, it's not exactly serendipitous, and even stares here and there at the meaninglessness of life and the cold inevitability of death.

Bloom gives a performance of deadpan perfection and Dunst is even more delightful. With Susan Sarandon and Alec Baldwin. The DVD has a couple of extended scenes and a making-of featurette. 123 minutes. Rated PG-13 for language and some sexual references. (William Arnold)

GRADE: A

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