Crazy Heart

Crazy Heart is a 2009 American drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb. Jeff Bridges plays a downandout country music singersongwriter who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young journalist portrayed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Other supporting roles are played by Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, and child actor Jack Nation. Bridges, Farrell, and Duvall also sing in the film.

Otis Bad Blake Jeff Bridges is a 57yearold alcoholic singersongwriter who was once a country music star. He now earns a modest living by singing and playing his guitar at onenight stands, in small town bars, in the southwestern United States. Having a history of failed marriages four that he admitted to, although a reference is made to a fifth he does not discuss Blake is without a family. He has a son, aged 28, with whom he has not had contact inyears. He is mostly on the road performing, staying in cheap motels and traveling in his old 78 Suburban alone. The film opens with his arrival at a bowling alley for a show.Enter Jean Craddock Maggie Gyllenhaal, a young journalist after a story, divorced and with a fouryearold son, Buddy Jack Nation. She interviews Blake, and the two enter into a relationship. Jean and her son become a catalyst for Blake beginning to get his life back on track. In doing so, he lets himself be pushed into renewing 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 Tommys concerts, despite his initial balking and wounded pride at being the opening act to his former student. He asks Tommy to record an album with him, but Tommy says his record company insists on a couple more solo albums before a duet project can be recorded. He instead suggests that Blake concentrate on writing new songs that Tommy can record solo, telling him he writes better songs than anyone else. ........

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