Crazy Heart

USA 2009, 112 minutes
Dir. Scott Cooper
Rating: [M]
Genres: Drama, Music / Country & Folk

Feat. Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Keane, Beth Grant, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell

Aroview: In an Oscar-winning turn, Jeff Bridges plays faded country music star Bad Blake, who swaggers from one dive to the next until his friendship with a journalist and her young son offers a way out.

Modest almost to a fault this is a simply adorned slice of Americana with dir. Cooper interested more in the quiet interactions of lives sadly lived than with any grand statement. Though fictionalized, it follows along fairly conventional lines of a music biopic, but is elevated by Bridges' fine, unaffected performance and a clearly felt sense of place.

"It's the brilliance of Bridges that means he can be sad and pathetic, and charismatic and heroic all at the same time." - Digital Spy

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3 stars (Good Enough) Bridges is brilliant, and Gyllenhaal almost matches him, but otherwise the film treads through convention after convention. ~Wizzums
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2 stars (Good Try) Nice photography & credible singing but flaccid and facile (flaccile?) and Gyllenhaal is excruciating. Bad has the smoothest alcoholic recovery in film history. Made me long for something with guts, like 'Georgia'. ~HiFi
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2 stars (Good Try) The broken down "has been" has been done before. The love relationship is not credible and in any case doesn't work nor help the film. Bridges is fine and so is some of the music. ~Tubbs