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Crazy Heart
Director: Scott Cooper
Release Date: December 6, 2009
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Beth Grant, Sarah Jane Morris, Annie Corley, Tom Bower
Language: English
Country: United States
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Crazy Heart is a 2009 American musical-drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb. Jeff Bridges plays Bad Blake, a down-and-out country music singer/songwriter who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young journalist named Jean, portrayed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Supporting roles are played by Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Beth Grant and Sarah Jane Morris. Bridges, Farrell, and Duvall also sing in the film. The film’s main character is based on a combination of Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard. Cooper initially wanted to do a biopic on Haggard but found the rights to his life story were too difficult to obtain.
Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is a 57 year-old alcoholic singer/songwriter who was once a star of country music. He now earns a modest living by singing and playing his guitar at one-night stands in small town bars in the southwestern United States. Having a history of failed marriages, Bad is without a family. He is mostly on the road performing, staying in cheap motels and travelling in his old car alone.
Enter Jean Craddock (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a young journalist after a story, divorced and with a 4 year old son. She interviews Bad and begins to see the man behind the musician and they are attracted to each other. Jean and her son become a catalyst for Bad getting his life back on track. In doing so, he begins to renew a professional relationship with Tommy Sweet (Colin Farrell), a popular and successful country music star he once mentored, and plays as the opening act at one of Tommy’s concerts. But Bad’s relationship with Jean doesn’t last. He almost loses her son at a shopping mall while he is drinking at a bar, and she breaks up with him.
After losing Jean and her son, who were becoming his only family, Bad seeks help from Alcoholics Anonymous and gets sober. He writes a song that he thinks is his best ever and sells it to Tommy, and mentions this while fishing with Wayne (Robert Duvall), his old friend. A year and a half later, for the first time since their breakup, Bad encounters Jean when she comes up to him in a parking lot outside one of Tommy’s concerts. They briefly meet as friends who still care about each other, but cannot be together again.
Cast:
- Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake
- Maggie Gyllenhaal as Jean Craddock
- Colin Farrell as Tommy Sweet
- Robert Duvall as Wayne Kramer
- Beth Grant as JoAnne
- Sarah Jane Morris as Marissa Reynolds
- Annie Corley as Donna
- Tom Bower as Bill Wilson
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