Think "Garden State" mixed with "Almost Famous". Did you like those two movies? Then you'll like this. I loved those two movies and I loved this one as well. The soundtrack is great, the actors are great, and the movie just makes you feel good through the entire thing.
The cast is incredible. Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst do a great job in the leading roles, especially Orlando Bloom, but the supporting cast is great as well. Susan Sarandon, as usual, is great (anybody seen "Igby Goes Down"?) and Alec Baldwin, although not in the movie for very long at all, really nails his part.
The premise is simple enough, Orlando Bloom plays a young businessman in the shoe designing business who has just made this huge fiasco for his company, and he gets word that his dad just died. So his mom and his sister tell him he has to go out to Kentucky, where all of his dad's family lives, to pick up the body and bring it back to Oregon for cremation. He meets Kirsten Dunst on the way there and it goes from there. Outside of that, there are several things in the movie that just stood out to me and made me really like the movie in general. There's a pretty unique part with an exercise bike, an explanation by Alec Baldwin about just how much money 942 million dollars is, Freebird at a memorial service, but the best is the last 15 minutes which just made me happy for a couple days.
Definitely a movie to check out. 10 out of 10.
"Sadness is easier because its surrender. I say make time to dance alone with one hand waving free."
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