After much anticipation, Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown opened to little fanfare at the box office. It's a "ramshackle" comedy drama following Orlando Bloom as Drew Baylor, a suicidal shoe designer who rediscovers his passion for life aided by Kirsten Dunst's chatty air stewardess. Ironically though, Crowe fans felt it lacked the life spark and honesty of his previous work.

The Not So Deep South

There is literally no word from cast and crew in either of two behind-the-scenes featurettes. Training Wheels is basically a montage of clips - some of which are taken from rehearsals and other snippets from location - backed with rambling folk music. The score is a little more upbeat for Meet The Crew, but again it's just a musical credit roll that recognises everyone from Cameron Crowe to the dolly grip to the co-key makeup artist. It couldn't be less edifying if Shane McGowan had sung the lyrics.

On The Town

In the first of two extended scenes, actor Jim Fitzpatrick provides a full guide to listening (and blowing things up) for a kid's instructional video, which is as much a non sequitur here as it is in the film. Thankfully real-life barman Russell George (owner of Ernestine and Hazel's in Memphis) has a few interesting stories to tell in a seven-minute improv that helped form part of the culminating road trip sequence. Among them, he proudly claims that blues legend Albert King used to occupy the last stool at the bar and once pulled a gun on a hapless gang of youths who tried to rob the place. Now that sounds like a film!

Padding out the bonus menu is a photo gallery that includes a few behind-the-scenes snaps but mostly comprises stills from the movie. In fact this DVD doesn't offer any substantial information about the making of the film at all. In short, if you were to liken it to one Drew Baylor's shoe designs, it would be the Air Max.

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