How Cameron Crowe’s Sleeper Hit Helped Me Cope With Grief

Grief is one of the essential human experiences, and so, it will always be one of the main themes within every kind of art. But it's funny how, sometimes, it's the work you least expect that comforts you the most. In my case, it's Elizabethtown. As a huge Cameron Crowe fan, I recognize that it's deeply flawed and far from his best work, but different movies mean different things to different people at different moments, and Elizabethtown has been helping me cope with my father's recent death in unexpected ways. Crowe has a knack for making cozy movies, and, while this particular one is most famous as a romantic comedy, it also perfectly captures the chaos of grief one endures as part of a dysfunctional family, something I wholeheartedly identify with.