Synopsis
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.
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Cast
- Jeff BridgesBad Blake
- Colin FarrellTommy Sweet
- Maggie GyllenhaalJean Craddock
- Robert DuvallWayne
- Tom BowerBill Wilson
- Paul HermanJack Greene
- Beth GrantJo Ann
- J. Michael OlivaBear
- Brian GleasonSteven Reynolds
- James KeaneManager
Recommendations
- 100
The New York Times
A small movie perfectly scaled to the big performance at its center. - 90
Newsweek
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. - 90
Village Voice
It's merely a well-done, adult American movie--that is to say, a rarity. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
Bridges' guileless performance makes this piquant little indie tale of country music, redemption, and the love of a pretty younger woman such a sad-song charmer. - 80
Variety
Ever-youthful in his looks and energy, Bridges now stands as one of Hollywood's great old pros, incapable of making a false move. - 80
Salon
Bridges performance in Crazy Heart, for my money the finest male performance of the year, reels us right back to understanding why: Instead of dressing up words, he sends them out naked. It's everything he subtracts that matters. - 75
Rolling Stone
Even when you know what's coming, Crazy Heart haunts you like a classic country song. It's a mesmerizer. So is Bad Blake. This dude also abides. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Crazy Heart lacks that spark of originality. So what Fox Searchlight has salvaged essentially is a highly watchable performance by Bridges, one of many he has furnished throughout a long career.
