Quotes
 [from trailer]
Drew Baylor: [embracing] Please don`t take this as rejection.
Claire Colburn: I really don`t. [from trailer]
Hollie Baylor: Don`t expect to be making any friends.
Heather Baylor: Drew doesn`t have friends, Mom.
Drew Baylor: I have friends!
Drew Baylor: I`m gonna have to call you back...
Heather Baylor: Okay, just dial HELL and i`ll answer.
Claire Colburn: Trust me. Everybody is less mysterious than they think they are.
Claire Colburn: We peaked on the phone.
text on an urn: KISS Forever
Claire Colburn: I`m impossible to forget, but I`m hard to remember.
Drew Baylor: So what are you doing right now?
Claire Colburn: [referring to Drew] I`m checking out this cute guy...
Drew Baylor: [disgusted face] Why are you telling me that?
Drew Baylor: [voiceover] There`s a diffrence between a failure and a fiasco. A failure is merely the absence of success. Any fool can achieve failure. But a fiasco, a fiasco is a disaster of epic propotions. A fiasco is a folk tale told to other`s to make other people feel more alive because it didn`t happen to them.
Ellen Kishmore: Drew, it was real, and it was great, and it was really great.
Bill Banyon: Is there such a thing as partial cremation?
Claire Colburn: I`m one of a kind.
Claire Colburn: Do you ever just think I`m fooling everybody?
Drew Baylor: You have no idea.
Claire Colburn: Men see things in a box, and women see them in a round room.
Claire Colburn: I think I`ve been asleep most of my life.
Drew Baylor: Me too.
Claire Colburn: What they say is, it *will* hit you, it could be ten minutes or it could be ten years from now.
Drew Baylor: [on cremating his dad] That`s the plan - that is the way it`s gonna be guys! Sprinkled at sea!
Drew Baylor: [angrily] And that`s the decision from California!
[then realising what he just said]
Drew Baylor: Shit, Oregon!
[men at table laughing]
Drew Baylor: We really are from Oregon!
Claire Colburn: [voiceover] Don`t get lost!
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!
Drew Baylor: I see you right there. I see you right there.
Claire Colburn: There you are.
Drew Baylor: You know, there is nothing greater than deciding in your life that things maybe really are black and white! And this guy Ben, who clearly takes you for granted, who serially takes advantage of you, is bad! And what I`m saying is good! See what I mean? You shouldn`t be the substitute for anybody. This guy should be right here, right now, doing this
[kisses Claire]
Drew Baylor: .
Drew Baylor: What is that word...? Whimsical!
Claire Colburn: Most of the sex I`ve had in my life was not as personal as that kiss.
Drew Baylor: No true fiasco ever began as a quest for mere adequacy. A motto of the British Special Air Force is: `Those who risk, win.` A single green vine shoot is able to grow through cement. The Pacific Northwestern salmon beats itself bloody on it`s quest to travel hundreds of miles upstream against the current, with a single purpose, sex of course, but also... life
Drew Baylor: And don`t worry. Because as great as you look tonight, you are safe with me.
Claire Colburn: [voice over] Some music *needs* air. Roll down your window.
Claire Colburn: I don`t know a lot about everything, but I do know a lot about the part of everything that I know, which is people.
Drew Baylor: And they all know me, and I don`t know any of them. And I`ve never seen a dead body before.
Drew Baylor: I`ve just recently decided that the things we know aren`t black and white.
Claire Colburn: And so we all became helpers, which I *so* can`t help. I can`t help helping.
Claire Colburn: I`ve spent so much time thinking about all the answers to the problem, that I forget what the problem *actually* was.
Drew Baylor: You`re smart, you`ll just wear your shoes and *never* ask any questions. Just enjoy your footwear.
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.
Chuck Hasboro: Death and life. And death and life. Right *next door* to each other! There`s like, there`s a hair between them.
Chuck Hasboro: Okay, it`s all about family bro.
Drew Baylor: Thank you, Chuck.
[they hug]
Drew Baylor: Did I miss 60B?
Drew Baylor: Because we have a moment here, let me tell you that I have recently become a secret connoisseur of `last looks`. You know the way people look at you when they believe it`s for the last time? I`ve started collecting these looks.
Drew Baylor: Can you imagine an entire life wrapped up in a shoe?
Hollie Baylor: All forward motion counts.
Claire Colburn: I want you to get into the deep beautiful melancholy of everything that`s happened.
Hollie Baylor: It takes time to be funny. It takes time to extract joy from life.
Claire Colburn: I`m walking out the door... in last night`s clothes.
Claire Colburn: Hey, now we actually have a shot at being friends for the rest of our lives.
Drew Baylor: The rest of our lives... hm...
Claire Colburn: Welcome to the annual meeting of people who annually meet, and we`ll see ya`ll next year.
Claire Colburn: Sadness is easier because its surrender. I say make time to dance alone with one hand waving free.
Claire Colburn: So you failed. Alright you really failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You think I care about that? I do understand. You wanna be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you`re still smiling.
Drew Baylor: In that moment, I knew success, not greatness, was the only god the world served.
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.
Hollie Baylor: I was still waiting for everything to start, and now it`s over.
Claire Colburn: I`m going to miss your lips. And everything attached to them.
Claire Colburn: You know, You`re always trying to break up with me, and we`re not even together.
Drew Baylor: I know... We`re not?
Drew Baylor: I`m fine.
Jessie Baylor: This loss will be met with a hurricane of love.
Jessie Baylor: I teach my kids about the things that really matter. I will teach them about Abraham Lincoln and Ronnie Van Zandt, because they are equally important in my house.
Drew Baylor: You`re great, Claire. Actually, you`re kinda amazing.
Claire Colburn: [after learning that Drew`s father is Mitch] Ah, so you`re a son of a Mitch.
Claire Colburn: Never met a Mitch I didn`t like. Fun, full of life. Like... everyone wants to be a part of Mitch`s club.
Drew Baylor: We should`ve taken this trip years ago.
Hollie Baylor: [looking at a picture of Mitch] I love you. This is for you. Your favorite song on a Saturday night.
[Moon River plays]
(text written on a cloth above the stage): If it wasn`t this... it`d be something else.
Drew Baylor: Beautiful night, does it ever cool off?
Jessie Baylor: No, this time of year its hotter than the hinges of hell, we got stars though...
Hollie Baylor: A few days after Mitch died I was walking through the yard and I saw our neighbor who was a very good friend of Mitch`s, Bob, and he saw me coming through the gate, and he said, "I am so sorry for your loss." And I knew that he needed to feel that loss, too, and to share it, and I wanted to help him. And he put his arms around me, he cradled me, and his embrace tighted. Finally, here was somebody who truly cared. And then, I felt something else.
[audience starts laughing]
Hollie Baylor: Some-thing huge.
[the laughing gets harder, Drew and Heather look embarrassed]
Hollie Baylor: Let`s just say it, let`s just say it. A BONER!
Drew Baylor: [on phone] I am Currently stealing Chuck and Cindy`s wedding beer.
Chuck Hasboro: You`re a friend of Chuck`s right?
Drew Baylor: Yes, yes I am
Chuck Hasboro: No you`re not, I`m Chuck
Drew Baylor: ...Of... Chuck and Cindy?
Claire Colburn: [voiceover] Is that Chuck?
Drew Baylor: It`s Chuck!
Drew Baylor: And who says we have to listen to `them`?
Claire Colburn: *They* do!
Claire Colburn: Just tell me you love me and get it over with!
Phil DeVoss: I am ill-equipt in the philosophies of failure.
Claire Colburn: Life cannot be so cruel that we don`t deserve to be together... to eat.
Drew Baylor: By the way, I didn`t say `million,` I said `billion.` A billion dollars; that`s a lot of million.
Trivia
Jane Fonda was originally set to play Hollie Baylor but dropped out when filming was delayed.
Christopher Masterson was considered for the role of Drew.
Loudon Wainwright III plays Uncle Dale in the film, and on one of Claire’s play list in the Road trip scrapbook, you can see "Oh What a World" by Rufus Wainwright listed. Rufus is Loudon Wainwright`s son.
When searching the 2nd Largest Farmer`s Market in the World for a woman in a red hat, Drew walks past a signpost with arrows pointing to "Success" and "Failure". He takes the "Failure" route to reach Claire.
Jessica Biel auditioned for the role of Claire but was cast as Ellen instead.
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# While shooting a scene in a cemetery with actors Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst, filming was interrupted due to an unexpected rain storm. Cameron Crowe suggested they shoot the scene anyway because it looked more beautiful and natural.
Judy Greer plays Orlando Bloom`s younger sister. In reality, Greer is two years older than Bloom.
A scene was shot in the John Wayne Airport in Orange County. It was the first time since the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001 that a film has shot there. The crew was given only one night to shoot.
Jesse`s band comprises members of Kentucky`s native band My Morning Jacket who are also featured on the soundtrack.
Exterior shots of the 747 seen in the film are lifted from the disaster film Airport 1975 (1974).
The phone that Drew uses is a Samsung SCH-a670. While it can vibrate and ring, it cannot do both at the same time as depicted in the film
In the original script, Ben is Claire`s brother. She uses him as a way to deflect unwanted advances.
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# On Claire`s road map for Drew, there is a quote by R. Hammond and J. Bebe. Russell Hammond and Jeff Bebe were two of Stillwater`s members in Cameron Crowe`s previous film Almost Famous (2000).
On Jesse`s wall there is a sticker with the text "ear-x-tacy" on it. Ear-x-tacy is Louisville`s biggest independently owned record store.
The picture of Susan Sarandon holding a baby on the mantelpiece in the flashback, is the same picture used in _Stepmom(1998)_.
Cameron Crowe had written the role of Drew Baylor with Orlando Bloom in mind. When Crowe originally offered Bloom the part, Bloom was unable to take it due to scheduling conflicts with Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Crowe then cast Ashton Kutcher in the part but later felt that Kutcher and co-star Kirsten Dunst had no chemistry and decided to let him go. Crowe then pushed his January 2004 start shoot date back to July 2004 for a summer shoot. Many young actors that included Seann William Scott, James Franco, Colin Hanks and Chris Evans auditioned for the part of Drew. Scott was seriously considered and nearly nabbed the part but Crowe pushed to get Bloom instead. When Bloom was able to work the film into his schedule, Crowe cast him in the part.
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# Cameron Crowe`s first choice for the part of Claire Colburn was Kirsten Dunst. Dunst wanted the part very much but had already signed for The Village (2004). Evan Rachel Wood (who was apparently too young) was then under consideration for the part but Dunst dropped out of The Village (2004) at the last moment to audition for the part and won it.
Kirsten Dunst dropped out of The Village (2004) for this film. Judy Greer, however, appeared in both `The Village` and `Elizabethtown"
The shoe company is headed by a guy named "Phil DeVoss", it is from Oregon, and it is an athletic shoe company. Nike is originally from Oregon, an athletic shoe company, and was founded and operated by Phil Knight.
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Orlando Bloom
(as Drew Baylor)
with Kirsten Dunst
(as Claire Colburn)
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