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Show all (10)With too many years of hazy days and boozy nights,former country-music legend Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is reduced to playing dives and bowling alleys. In town for his latest gig, Blake meets Jean Craddock (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a sympathetic reporter who has come to do a story on him. He unexpectedly warms to her and a romance begins, then the singer finds himself at a crossroads that may threaten his last shot at happiness.
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Movies like Crazy Heart, a homespun, refreshingly modest portrait of a washed-up country singer, live or die by their performances. You need a great actor in order to build an entire picture around a character like Bad Blake, a lonely, self-destructive boozer who has given up on himself as he approaches 60. He's an embodiment of the sad songs he sings, except that there's nothing romantic about his melancholy. If Blake doesn't care about his life, then why should we? (Full review)