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Anybody live near or in Elizabethtown, KY?

posted 15 years ago by rilesz93
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I live in New Albany, IN, which is right across the river from Louisville, which is not too far from Elizabethtown. I remember about six years ago when they were filming this, but I just saw it about two years ago. I enjoyed it, especially because of all the landmarks that I am so familiar with and have seen in real life. I was wondering if anyone else lived in Elizabethtown or near there.

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[–] unabob 15 years ago

Naw, I'm in Louisville.
If you wanna check out landmarks, watch Stripes or the local films Paper Cut or Keep Your Distance.

[–] GregJohnsonJr 14 years ago

I lived in Etown Ky at the time of this filming. I know live in Los Angeles.

[–] taslin2112 14 years ago

I live in Louisville but I have friends and family that live in and around e"town. I really liked this movie, even own it, and my 13 year old daughter liked being able to see places in Louisville in a movie. My only gripe with it was the inacuracies with geography and layouts of the highways. For one thig, the girl told him the way wrong, loooooong way to get to E'town. And you can't park your car like that in front of the Brown Hotel. And what was it with the bridge coming from the airport. Wrong way dude, unless ya like driving back and forth between Louisville and Jeffersonville! All in all though a great movie.

[–] wsta92 14 years ago

I live in E-town, but have never seen this movie and really have no desire to. They filmed for one day here and one scene only I believe. They used the store fronts in the old downtown section. Most everything else wasn't even filmed in the town the movie is named after, lol. I don't really blame them though, we are in a dry county, with no night life or anything to really do.

He drives ACROSS the bridge from the airport? The bridge takes you to Indiana. The drive to E-town from the airport is about 45 minutes straight down Interstate 65. Elizabethtown is small town that thinks it is a big city and I look forward to moving someday.

Edit: Stripes was filmed on Ft. Knox, which is outside of Radcliff. A few miles away from E-town.

[–] hollywood033 14 years ago

I'm from Illinois but I have relatives who live in E-town and Radcliff, which is only a few miles away from E-town, and visit a few times a year. I've only seen pieces of the movie but it was neat seeing some of the shops downtown on film.

Being a dry county, I've always found it humorous that the county line from Meade County into Hardin County has two small taverns across the road from each other. This is the road you take into Vine Grove I can't remember the name/number of it. We get a little chuckle out of it when we pass through.

[–] Cloudburst2000 13 years ago

Most of the movie was actually shot in Versailles, KY which is just outside of Lexington. Elizabethtown isn'y anywhere near as small of a town as they were trying to portray in the movie so they had to film much of it in a much smaller town.

[–] ldlamb74 12 years ago

I liked it, but I too thought they should have gotten the geography better. I guess they figure 99 percent of the audience doesn't know or care.

But you would never cross a bridge to get from the airport to Etown, at the end he leaves Etown heading west to Memphis and shortly passes Frankfort, the state Capitol . Only problem is that's at least a half hour the other direction.

And when Kirsten tells him that she is only 45 minutes way in Nashville, well I wish. I'd be going to Nashville a lot more if that were true. More like 2.5 hours

[–] nekkid_hill_billy 10 years ago

the met up with each other in bowling green/cave city area though which really is about 45 mins away.

[–] ldlamb74 10 years ago

Maybe, although BG is way farther than 45 minutes from the Brown hotel.

And she said, we are only 45 minutes apart, which doesnt quite mean the same thing, but oh well.

[–] gilligirl14 12 years ago

He does go the wrong way from Louisville to Elizabethtown because at one point in the movie it shows him driving into Indiana when he gets lost.

[–] ldlamb74 11 years ago

It shows him lost, but that has nothing to do with crossing into Indiana.

[–] dalanj89 12 years ago

Don't live there now ... but I did then, during the filming. About 5 blocks away from downtown Etown. Both my wife and I had the day off and rather than venture down to be shooed away from the site, we listened to WQXE who kept listeners clued into what was going on.

There was a big problem keeping the locals away from the filming due to the fact of them not wanting people sticking their heads around corners during filming. I, too, am saddened by the fact that in order to be an extra in that movie one had to travel to Louisville when there was a great number of people in Etown that may have wanted to participate. I believe this factor may have led to the negative reviews the movie garnered in Etown, but ... hey ... that's just my thoughts.

The Courthouse pictured in the movie is the honest-to-goodness Courthouse where my Wife and I were married just a few months prior to the filming in Etown. WQXE is an honest-to-goodness radio station there in Etown, my Wife and I always had the radio tuned to the channel ever since we first met (they played a great mix at the time) ... the kids grew up and wouldn't leave home ... so we did.

First time we saw the DVD was in Montana ... and it touched our hearts. I was the down-trodden Drew (yes I did live in Oregon for a while) and my wife is the overly optimistic Claire. When we saw the movie we laughed and cried ... and to this date we still know every line (beginning with "Welcome back boys").

I had the occasion to share a conversation with Russel of Ernestine and Hazels in Memphis, he is a very interesting person!!

A poem is just a poem, a song is just a song, a movie is just a movie ... until it touches you ...

IT'S AN E-TOWN THING !!!!

[–] seagreenfly 11 years ago

What a wonderful story! Thank you for sharing it. :)

[–] BulmaPunkRocker 11 years ago

Thanks for sharing, it's nice to know how you felt being from Elizabethtown, and the fact both you and your wife liked the film.

Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.

[–] ipanmu 8 years ago

Wow, you really were a local resident and the lover of the film.
I personally believe this is the best American Comedy-Romance file, with everyone and everything unforgettable.

One question thought, are local people really so warm-hearted and innocent like portrayed in the movie?