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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, and Beth Grant. 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. The film has been described by Leonard Maltin as “half Big Lebowski, half Urban Cowboy meets The Wrestler”.
Plot :
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 Buddy (Jack Nation). 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. Bad almost loses her son at a shopping mall while drinking at a bar, and Jean 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, “The Weary Kind,” and sells it to Tommy, and mentions this while fishing with Wayne (Robert Duvall), his old friend.
Sixteen months 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. Bad had just finished playing as an opening act for Tommy and has just seen his protege play “The Weary Kind” to an appreciative audience while his manager presents another of the large royalty checks for the song. Jean is engaged and they meet as friends who still care about each other, which includes gestures like Bad insisting Buddy have the money of that royalty check for his 18th birthday. The film ends with Jean interviewing Bad for a story, at a picnic table on the edge of the parking lot, where there is a scenic overlook of a southwestern US landscape, and the sound of Tommy’s music from the nearby concert.
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
* Annie Corley as Donna
* Tom Bower as Bill Wilson
* Jack Nation as Buddy
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