Crazy Heart

The harder the life, the sweeter the song

CRAZY HEART (15)

D: Scott Cooper

Fox Searchlight/Informant Media/Butchers Run (Robert Duvall, Rob Carliner, Judy Cairo & T-Bone Burnett)

USA 🇺🇸 2009

106 mins

Drama/Musical

W: Scott Cooper

DP: Barry Markowitz

Ed: John Axelrad

Mus: Stephen Bruton & T-Bone Burnett

PD: Waldemar Kalinowski

Jeff Bridges (Bad Blake), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Jean Craddock), Robert Duvall (Wayne Kramer), Colin Farrell (Tommy Sweet)

Jeff Bridges won a long-awaited and well deserved Oscar for his performance as Bad Blake, an alcoholic country music singer who receives much needed salvation from a single mother journalist.

The film has many similarities to 1983's Tender Mercies, which also saw Robert Duvall win a Best Actor Oscar as a washed up Country & Western singer.

They're both good movies, but the ultimate enjoyment factor heavily depends on whether or not you're a fan of that particular genre of music.

Jeff Bridges really does act his heart out in this, and his singing isn't too shabby either.

7/10