Crazy Heart is quiet, gentle, heart-bruised more than heart-broken, and it lingers in the memory after you've seen it, like a song you can't get out of your head.
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12/04/09
Crazy Heart (2009)
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Reviews Counted:7
Fresh:6
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.8/10
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Dec 16, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: Four-time Academy Award® nominee JEFF BRIDGES stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film CRAZY HEART from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake... [More]
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Colin Farrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall
Director: Scott Cooper
Reviews for Crazy Heart
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Though based on a novel, inevitable comparison will be made to Tender Mercies, for which Duvall (producer here) won an Oscar and Jeff Bridges may earn a nod too; despite being generic, it's enjoyable, well acted and the music both rousing and melancholy.
12/04/09
Crazy Heart gets to you like a good country song -- not because it tells you something new, but because it tells it well. It's the singer, not the song.
12/04/09
Top CriticPlaying a drunken, washed-up music legend reduced to playing small-town bowling alleys, Jeff Bridges is the whole show here as a cowboy-style crooner who wrestles with his demons in ways that easily engage an audience's sympathies.
12/03/09
Top CriticAn ex-star out of control and the self-destructive drunk is a cross between types with too many antecedents in other movies.
12/03/09
Top CriticCrazy Heart is a story of redemption which has been told a thousand times before, but is infused with energy here by Cooper’s dialogue and his work with the actors.
12/03/09
A richly-realized, deeply-heartfelt character study in the vein of Tender Mercies and Bound for Glory, this sterling directing debut by actor Scott Cooper looks perfectly pitched to finally win Jeff Bridges his very long overdue Best Actor Academy Award.
12/01/09
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