Crazy Heart

 

Crazy Heart 2009

• Director: Scott Cooper
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Jeff Bridges – many
• Maggie Gyllenhaal - The Dark Night, Stranger than Fiction, Paris je t’aime, Sherrybaby, Riding in Cars with Boys, Donnie Darko, Waterland
• Colin Farrell - many
• Why? The cast
• Seen:  3 March 2025   

             In these Oscar days it feels appropriate to see a film with an Oscar winner, Jeff Bridges for best actor. I don’t generally like country music but I’m hoping this will be the palatable sort.

            Bad Blake (Bridges) is an ex-superstar country musician, now an alcoholic on the skids. His current gig is in a bowling alley.

            He and single mum journalist Jean (Gyllenhaal) start a romance and he sort of tries to get his life together. It’s a mediocre story that we’ve seen before. I like Gyllenhaal in most roles but here I found her mournful eyes and hunched posture irritating. An Oscar for Bridges? Another one of those mysterious choices. Only Colin Farrell is really worth seeing here and he raises it to

         

 2 ½ * of 5