Elizabethtown
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Drew Baylor: I've just recently decided that the things we know aren't black and white.

Claire Colburn: I want you to get into the deep beautiful melancholy of everything that's happened.

Chuck Hasboro: Death and life. And death and life. Right next door to each other! There's like, there's a hair between them.

Claire Colburn: Life cannot be so cruel that we don't deserve to be together... to eat.

Claire Colburn: To have never taken a solitary road trip across country? I mean everybody's got to take a road trip, at least once in their lives. Just you and some music.

Claire Colburn: I've spent so much time thinking about all the answers to the problem, that I forget what the problem actually was.

Claire Colburn: I'm going to miss your lips. And everything attached to them.

Drew Baylor: In that moment, I knew success, not greatness, was the only god the world served.

Claire Colburn: Most of the sex I've had in my life was not as personal as that kiss.

Hollie Baylor: It takes time to be funny. It takes time to extract joy from life.

(text written on a cloth above the stage): If it wasn't this... it'd be something else.

Claire Colburn: Sadness is easier because its surrender. I say make time to dance alone with one hand waving free.

Claire Colburn: Hey, you're only 45 minutes away. You wanna meet halfway and see the sunrise? At this point it's probably easier to stay up.
Drew Baylor: You think so?
Claire Colburn: I think that's what "they" say.

Hollie Baylor: We were complete opposites and it worked. And something happened between us that was not part of the plan... we were in love.

Continuity mistake: When Hollie takes the stage she passes the huge photo of Mitch, beside the stage. When facing the opposite side of the ballroom from the stage, near the wet-bar on the left, there is another huge photo of a younger Mitch. Later, when the sprinklers go off, those two framed photos have actually switched places. Connie grabs the photo of Mitch which was originally near the stage and exits near the bar, and in the last shot of Ruckus playing to an empty ballroom, the other photo is beside the stage. (01:29:00 - 01:41:00)

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Trivia: The movie opens in Portland, Oregon (as seen when the helicopter is flying over the city in the beginning). The Portland area is home to Nike (a big athletic shoe producer), and Nike's big name man and former CEO's name is Phil Knight. In the movie, the head honcho's name is Phil, dealing with athletic shoes in Portland, Oregon.

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