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Trailer!: Crazy Heart
posted by Molly Eichel
Is no one else creeped out by how Jeff Bridges looks like the perfect combination of Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson? Here, he plays Bad Blake, a once famous country singer who has fallen from grace and is trying to claw his way back up to relevancy. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a young reporter who falls for our hero, despite the fact that he is freakishly older than she is. Robert Duvall gets a small trailer mention as Blake’s dear ol’ dad. But what’s crazy here is that Colin Farrell is slated to play the hot young thang country singer but he doesn’t get any type of billing here, not even trailer face time. What does that mean? Has he fallen from grace to the point where even his chiseled visage won’t attract theater goers? Or is his part simply so small that giving him a mention would be superfluous? Mos Def got tons of pimpage in the Next Day Air trailer and, while he was the best part of the movie, he’s in it for about ten minutes cumulatively.
What do you think the deal is?
I love movies about country music. Nashville, Tender Mercies, Sweet Dreams and my ultimate favorite: Coal Miner’s Daughter, about Loretta Lynn, played expertly by Sissy Spacek. I don’t know if it’s the music, the oft-alcohol soaked stories or the genre’s penchant for melodrama but I eat them up.
Crazy Heart is scheduled for a December 16, 2009 release.
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