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Crazy Heart is a 2009 American musical drama film directed and written by Scott Cooper. Its cast includes Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall and Colin Farrell, produced by T Bone Burnett, Robert Duvall and Scott Cooper, with Jeff Bridges as executive producer. It addresses alcoholism and was filmed in New Mexico, with its narrative set across Texas, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.
The film received the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor. It is recognised in the Academy Award Best Actor collection, had a budget of $7,000,000 and a box office of $47,400,000, was rated R, and was distributed by Searchlight Pictures, Netflix and Disney+.
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6.9When 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.
Cast
- Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake
- Maggie Gyllenhaal as Jean Craddock
- Robert Duvall as Wayne
- Colin Farrell as Tommy Sweet
- Tom Bower as Bill Wilson
- Paul Herman as Jack Greene
Themes
- journalist
- taxi
- country music
- guitar
- musician
- alcoholism
- singer
- memory
- texan
- alcoholic
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Ratings
IMDb
7.2/10
96,025 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Metacritic
83/100
- Year
- 2009
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Genres
- Drama, Music, Romance
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Won 2 Oscars. 40 wins & 33 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Scott Cooper
- Screenplay by
- Scott Cooper
- Based on
- Crazy Heart , by Thomas Cobb
- Produced by
- Robert Duvall Rob Carliner Judy Cairo T Bone Burnett Scott Cooper
- Starring
- Jeff Bridges Maggie Gyllenhaal Robert Duvall
- Cinematography
- Barry Markowitz
- Edited by
- John Axelrad Jeffrey Ford
- Music by
- Stephen Bruton T Bone Burnett Ryan Bingham
- Production companies
- Dune Entertainment Informant Media Butcher's Run Films
- Distributed by
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- Release dates
- December 6, 2009 ( 2009-12-06 ) ( Santa Fe Film Festival ) December 16, 2009 ( 2009-12-16 ) (United States )
- Running time
- 112 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $7 million
- Box office
- $47.4 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- alcoholism
- Creator
- Scott Cooper
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Director
- Scott Cooper
- Cast member
- Blake Williams
- Composer
- T Bone Burnett
- Producer
- Scott Cooper
- Production company
- CMT
- Narrative location
- New Mexico
- Filming location
- New Mexico
- Duration
- 112
- FilmAffinity ID
- 677232
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.foxsearchlight.com/crazyheart
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- publication date
- 2010-03-04
- title
- Crazy Heart
- distributed by
- Disney+
- box office
- 47400000
- capital cost
- 7000000
- review score
- 83/100
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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Encyclopedic overview
Crazy Heart is a 2009 American drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper in his feature directorial debut. Based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb, the story was inspired by country singer Hank Thompson. Starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, and Robert Duvall, the film follows an alcoholic country singer and songwriter who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young journalist. Bridges, Farrell, and Duvall also sing in the film.
Filming took place in 2008 throughout New Mexico, as well as Houston and Los Angeles. Original music for the film was composed by T Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton, and Ryan Bingham. It was dedicated to Bruton, who died the same year the film was made. The film was produced by Country Music Television and was originally acquired by Paramount Vantage for a direct-to-video release, but was later purchased by Fox Searchlight Pictures for theatrical release.
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