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Crazy Heart
EMAILPRINTFox Searchlight Pictures

Universal acclaim
Based on 32 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Scott Cooper
Directed by: Scott Cooper
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 16, 2009
DVD: April 20, 2010
Running Time: 112 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language and brief sexuality
Starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, and Sarah Jane Morris
Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man’s crazy heart. (Fox Searchlight)
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What The Critics Said
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
A small movie perfectly scaled to the big performance at its center.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Gyllenhaal is charming and makes unexpected choices in her performance, but this is Bridges' show, and he's as Best Actor-worthy as he's ever been.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
On first viewing, Crazy Heart seemed like a pretty good movie with one great performance. After a second time through, it's sneaking up on the title of my favorite film of the year.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Jeff Bridges is a virtual certainty to win his first Oscar, after four nominations.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Bridges draws us deeply inside Blake’s moment-to-moment heartbreaks. He makes us root for him as we would root for a dear friend. Ultimately, his triumphs become our own.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Crazy Heart is blessed with so many marvelous moments, lovely lines and vivid characters.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
On a par with Bridges' acting, and a sine qua non for Crazy Heart's success, is the excellent music he sings.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
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.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Nick Pinkerton
It's merely a well-done, adult American movie--that is to say, a rarity.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Can’t possibly deserve your close attention. Yet it does, with distilled honky-tonk poetry and generous good humor. It’s one of the year’s best, most deeply felt films.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
The music is terrific, as it should be in a movie where T Bone Burnett wrote the songs with Stephen Bruton.
Read Full Review >Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore
This performance reminds us that Bridges is that rare actor who has never had to make that apology. Crazy Heart lets him be every bit as grand as we’d hope him to be.
Read Full Review >New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott
A simple story about a difficult man, and it's an impressive debut from writer-director Scott Cooper.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Crazy Heart could use more rough edges, but while it’s a little too sentimental and tidy, Bridges’ humane, deeply empathetic lead performance makes it easy to root for one man’s redemption.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
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.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
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.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Ever-youthful in his looks and energy, Bridges now stands as one of Hollywood's great old pros, incapable of making a false move.
Read Full Review >Empire Nev Pierce
A phenomenal, heart-breaking performance from Jeff Bridges powers this simple but affecting redemption story.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Robert Duvall, who played a similar character in Bruce Beresford's "Tender Mercies" (1983), turns up in a supporting role.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Bridges makes this sozzled and desperate ex-desperado – a cliché by any other name – as fresh and vital as one final shot at cowboy-poet redemption. It may sound crazy, but it's true.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Bridges brings his 50 years of acting experience to this one captivating, surprisingly moving performance.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Perhaps the idea of watching Jeff Bridges as a drunken, broken-down, down-on-his luck country music singer in Crazy Heart doesn't automatically sound appealing. But think this: "The Wrestler." With good songs.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Staff (Not credited)
The virtues of Crazy Heart only begin with Bridges: Music fans will rejoice at the movie's songs.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Bridges's big performance takes place in the context of a relatively minor movie.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
What makes this low-key movie memorable are the pitch-perfect performances.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
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.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Crazy Heart is the country music version of "The Wrestler": a grizzled veteran whose days in the spotlight are behind him struggles to keep going while seeing the world through a haze of regret and booze.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Crazy Heart, based on a 1987 novel by Thomas Cobb, also has great music. Even if you're not a country music fan, the songs, by T Bone Burnett and the late Stephen Bruton, are infectious.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
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.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
It has a gentle, unforced rhythm, and what’s there is good and true. But there’s not enough of it--the movie needs more plot, more complication, more conflict.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf
A manufactured kid-in-jeopardy climax and Blake’s rehab stint blow the mood. Until then, this is great American acting.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 59 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Gklk K gave it a3:
Sorry, Couldn't get into this story. What pretty smart young attractive, lady, would choose to be near a sweaty,smelly, dissipated, fat, boozy, old, traveling, drunk. Zero credibility for me. The story and the music was a drag.
duane gave it a10:
There is more truth on the screen in this film than I've seen in years. At one point I could swear I smelled the alcoholic stench of Bad Blake (Bridges).
Brad F gave it a3:
I was really looking forward to this movie and even waited until I was in the mood to take in what I expected to be an emotive, raw roller coaster. Instead I was offered a Sunday afternoon matinee with little or no ride at all. Agree Bridges did a great job in the role of Bad Blake though if no one had said he was Oscar material I wouldn't have suggested it after seeing it. Disappointing in my opinion. Flat. Miscast. Oh well. Big Lebowski was ace.
James H gave it an8:
The storyline of this movie is nearly identical to last year's "The Wrestler". Both movies are good, but "The Wrestler" is better, and Mickey Rourke's performance is amazing. This one doesn't quite reach that level but the writing and acting is good throughout. I'm a big fan of "the Dude" Jeff Bridges so I'm glad he won the Oscar for this performance. Way overdue.
Jim S gave it a6:
I was not impressed with Crazy Heart. It was an uneven and melodramatic portrayal of an implausible, depressing, and dysfunctional relationship. Revolting at times, even redemption was presented as a hollow and empty exercise. Scant offerings at the cinema these days.
Lorna S gave it an8:
A terrific character study from Jeff Bridges,in which he gets inside the skin of Bad Blake.Even the songs fit him perfectly. The one negative about this film,unfortunately,is a big one.It is the unconvincing love story,made worse by the cute kid storyline.More of Colin Farrell's character would have been more interesting,plus adding more to our understanding of Bad.
Jean S gave it a3:
What's all the hype about? A hackneyed plot,with little depth to flesh out the meager story-line. A hard-to-believe "relationship" between Bad and Jean - not just a lack of chemistry between the two actors, but also a lack of realness about the young mom having any interest in the seedy musician - the middle-aged female fans in the bars made more sense and were more believable. I found myself watching Maggie G. with more interest then Jeff B in the early part of the movie. All in all, I couldn't get involved in the story - and I was totally distracted by thoughts all through the movie that Jeff Bridges looked skanky, and boy, whoever dressed Maggie Gyllenhal for this part did her a major disservice.
