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Crazy Heart (DVD, 2009)
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Product Identifiers
- ProducerRobert Duvall, Judy Cairo, Rob Carliner, Scott Cooper, T-Bone Burnett
- UPC0024543665892
- eBay Product ID (ePID)17046032166
Product Key Features
- Movie/TV TitleCrazy Heart
- DirectorScott Cooper
- LanguageEnglish
- Run Time111 min.
- RatingR
- FormatDVD
- Release Year2009
- GenreDrama
- Studio20th Century Studios
Dimensions
- Item Height0.56 in
- Item Weight0.15 lb
- Item Length7.49 in
- Item Width5.41 in
Additional Product Features
- Number of Discs1
- Country/Region of ManufactureMexico
- category_subtree11232
- Rating Description(Restricted under 17)
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- by jj040310 Apr, 2016
Understated excellence
This movie captured my attention from the beginning. Having always liked Jeff Bridges and Robert Duvall, I was prepared to enjoy fine acting and gripping story; however, what I actually saw was the cast living this story of one man's salvation. To me the excellence of story telling lies in the detail and completion that make a scene realistic. It is here. The scene in the bar when Bridges and Duvall reacquaint personifies that detail. Little mannerisms that come naturally during conversations with friends are there. Mr Bridges character is a combination of Hank Williams, Jr and Waylon Jennings with a little Willie Nelson thrown in. His understated performance makes the character his, not just a good job. I think this movie deserves a second watch to catch the little nuances overlooked the first time. By the way, if you like country music, you will like the score very much. I think Spencer Tracy said, "Don't let them catch you acting.". Well, I didn't see Bridges, Duvall or Gyllenhaal acting - they were living the story.Read full review
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- by tigerbaby007112...12 Jun, 2013
Crazy Heart (DVD, 2010)
Here is the movie that the ridiculously talented Jeff Bridges finally won an Oscar for, and deservedly so. His performance is the gleaming highlight of this film in the best way possible. He is playing washed up country singer Bad Blake, trying to overcome alcoholism and a dying career. The story is very touching, and how could you expect anything less than incredible from a character study piloted by Jeff Bridges. The film has a very organized focus on Bridges' character but he is also backed by a fantastic supporting cast. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays an aspiring reporter who interviews Blake, only to fall in love with him shortly after. Her performance is equally touching and feels so real alongside Bridges. Colin Farrell plays Tommy Sweet, an old friendship of Bad Blake's that went sour somewhere along the line. And then of course there is the small yet significant role of Bad Blake's long time old fishing buddy Wayne, played by the masterful Robert Duvall. The limited number of scenes between Bridges and Duvall are some of the best and most sincere of the movie. Crazy Heart is a great film to watch in order to see fantastic actors do what they do best... act. The character development in Crazy Heart embodies the movie's strong suit, which is the wonderful acting ability of the cast. There is not a moment when you don't believe in these characters and you truly feel that they are sincere and real. It is also just so incredibly satisfying to watch legends like Bridges and Duvall act side by side in beautiful and perfectly fitting roles such as these. The story of Bad Blake itself is very interesting, but the characters are where the heart and soul of the movie lay. The plot leaves something to be desired, but it doesn't fault the movie as much as it could when you have such great actors filling the roles of such articulated characters. This is a solid movie that is a pure delight to watch.Read full review
- by cannonclubonlin...04 Jul, 2010
Jeff Bridges Lives A Dream As Bad Blake, The Semi-Celeb
When Thomas Cobb wrote this novel around 1988, he probably wasn't thinking to the future of how true it is when we hear others say how life imitates art. Well, get this! Ryan Bingham, who plays Tony (the musician Bad talks to at the bowling alley) is a real-life 30 year old rising country-rock star from Hobbs, New Mexico. Bingham co-wrote "The Weary Kind" with T-Bone Burnett. Bingham's recording of "The Weary Kind" won a Golden Globe & an Oscar for Best Original Song. The real Ryan Bingham won an Oscar while a fictional Ryan Bingham, played by George Clooney in "Up in the Air" 2009, who was nominated the same year, did not. That's really freaky. When Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) gets on stage, the world stands still to watch & listen as this veteran country music legend departs the wise old words of life in his songs. Actually Jeff Bridges had a long time appreciation for T-Bone Burnett, who worked on the music score on the "The Big Lebowski 1998). Jeff only agreed to play the role if T-Bone Burnett agreed to contribute a track for him to play on screen. Married 4 times with a son to boot, Bad can't remember a time when he performed without getting lit. Once on the wagon, he made this comment to Wayne after performing his first sober performance. Alcohol changes the way you saw things. A more colorful person comes out of long term contemplation of sorrow behind a bottle, sitting on a barstool, regretting everything you did & said wrong. Actually, the best line in the film was said by Bad, "Whole worlds have been tamed by men who ate biscuits." There's not enough dark matter in the universe to fill over all the guilt you have for messing up things. Scott Cooper, who originally wrote the screenplay as well as directed & shot this film in 24 days, does a wonderful job bringing this character to life. Although there were a few goofs in the film (nothing outstanding), the film would have been much better in my opinion if they had they kept the long scene labeled Bad relapses in the film and off the editing floor. This scenes includes a hilariously tipsey woman named Donna (Annie Dorley) who happens to be drinking in a local bar. Since the entire scene was removed, it only appears under the deleted scenes area where Dorley does get mentioned. We soon find Bad and her asleep in the back seat of his truck awaking in a drunken stupor and discover his truck will not start. Bad gets out to go for help and winds up falling down on his but in the muddy ground in the middle of a rainstorm. Typically watching a squalling man lying in the mud would only make people angry, but knowing how talented this guy is, you really start feeling sorry for him. Bad's relationship with Jean Craddock (Maggie Gyllenhaal) starts out quite nice, but somehow, Bad has trouble keeping women for very long. Although he's trying real hard, she wants a perfect man and can't put with his miserable self destructive qualities. I can't really say whether Bad deserved her rejection the way it turned out, but hey, that the movies. I don't have any idea why Bad didn't wind up dead in a broken down sleazy motel dead of alcohol poisoning. The best thing in Bad's life happens to be an old bar owner named Wayne (Robert Duvall). Duvall's role in "Tender Mercies" happens to happens to parallel "Crazy Heart" in a lot of ways and won Duvall and Academy Award as well. Thanks to Toby Keith for allowing Bridges & Colin Farrell to perform at the Journal Pavilion in Albequerque.Read full review
- by alexandrab15620...07 May, 2012
A film worth watching
I bought this DVD for several reasons; first, I'm a big Jeff Bridges fan but aside from that it is a great film. Second, it won an Academy Award for best actor but all the actors did a great job. The music was fantastic and Jeff Bridges showed that he is a talented musician as well as actor. The story line is thought provoking - how many actors and musicians have had their lives destroyed by alcohol or drugs? This movie shows the tragic side of a talented musician ruled by his own demons, I found it was very realistic. Even though I love Jeff Bridges, there were times when his character totally disgusted me; thus the academy award for best actor. I was disappointed with the ending; guess I wanted everyone to live happily ever after. But as in real life sometimes we just have to pay the price for our mistakes even though we've turned our lives around. To sum it up: realistic script, great acting, good music, an overall great film.Read full review
- by 2-thumbs-up!!20 Apr, 2010
Jeff Bridges is EXCELLENT!! Grab The Crazy Heart DVD!
Jeff Bridges gives one of his finest performances EVER in Crazy Heart. His oft-married, booze-soaked troubadour Bad Blake has just rolled into Santa Fe when he meets Maggie Gyllenhaal's journalist Jean. "Where do all the songs come from?" she asks during their initial encounter. "Life, unfortunately," he sighs. Against Jean's better judgment, her fling with Blake blooms into a full-fledged relationship. Between gigs, Blake hangs out with the divorcée and her 4-year-old son, with whom he establishes an instant rapport, possibly because the musician is just an overgrown kid himself (and also because he hasn't seen his own boy in years). While Blake plays juke joints, his protégé, Tommy Sweet (Colin Farrell, cast against type to fine effect), plays stadiums, but just when director Scott Cooper's debut seems to be going down the same path as A Star Is Born, Sweet offers his mentor an opportunity that could revive his reputation--at the expense of his still-healthy ego. Between Jean and Tommy, things start looking up for Blake until a critical error puts his stab at redemption in jeopardy. Once Robert Duvall enters the scene as Blake's favorite bartender, it's clear that Cooper has Tender Mercies in his sights, but Crazy Heart, which features music by T-Bone Burnett and rough-hewn singing by its Golden Globe/Oscar winning star Jeff Bridges is a film that should make your DVD collection.Read full review
- by x0fw5lTXQ1C@Del...25 Sep, 2010
A Great Movie!! Wonderful Music!! Great Acting!
Jeff Bridges pulls out all the stops in his 2009 Oscar winning Best Actor role as Bad Blake in this surprisingly wonderful movie. Bad has previously been a country star but at age 57 is down on his luck, unclean with a dishevelled beard, an alcoholic, chain smoker, and so overweight that he leaves his pants undone while driving. Playing a bowling alley in Clovis, New Mexico, a bar in Santa Fe, and other dives in the Southwest, he is the "Wrangler of Love", but he uses local bands to back him up and mainly sings his old standards. However, he's "played sick, drunk, divorced, and on the run." He is brain dead on alcohol and often sick and despite pleas by his agent Jack Greene (Paul Herman), he can't write anything new. Enter Jean Craddock (Maggie Gyllenhaal, nominated for Best Supporting Actress), as a reporter for a local newspaper who wants to interview Bad and is introduced to him by her uncle. She is such a breath of fresh air in that she is clean, nicely groomed in contrast to the trash heap that Bad lives in. And she succumbs to his charms. The complication to their relationship is her job and a 4 year old son Buddy that she is single parent to. While Bad is very good with her son and the boy lacks male companionship, can an irresponsible country singer be left alone with the boy? We are treated to so many wonderful songs sung by Jeff Bridges in this movie that I am sure that they conribute to my so positive review. "I Don't Know", "Hold On You", "Fallin & Flyin", and "My Baby's Gone" are among my favorites, but there are many more. T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham won a Best Original Song Academy Award for "The Weary Kind." This is a dvd that you will watch over and over--at least for the music. It is in the same class as "Coal Miner's Daughter" but not as funny. There is also a conflict similar to "All About Eve" with the protoge Tommy Sweet (Colin Ferrell) becoming more famous than the real star. Turned off by Jeff Bridges' irresponsible character and by the wretched conditions in which he lives, I almost didn't watch this dvd. However, I was completely surprised even at the very beginning by the beautiful outdoor photography of the Southwest and was hooked once Bridges started to sing. You will be rooting for him to change his life and you will not be let down.Read full review
- by ann94523 Feb, 2021
Crazy Heart
I thought the plot was weak. Bridges did a good job, but I hated the excessive off color language. However, the music was excellent.
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- by curtklay12 Sep, 2011
A Real Movie
Crazy Heart is an excellent slice of life, featuring superb acting and music. It may be too low key for some people...don't expect any shoot 'em up action or hot sex. What you will find is a moving story of what life is really like, some success, some failure. It's a very satisfying film that will stay with you because it is very "real". There's no happily ever after ending, or tragic finale. Just the reality that life continues to go on no matter what experiences you go through. The T-Bone Burnett music is outstanding, and the performances by Jeff Bridges and Colin Farrell are not faked. Everything about this movie is real.
- by 3fkic-EwTB6@Del...02 Jan, 2011
"Crazy Heart" Jeff Bridges is worth a look...
All around good movie - script, actors and cinematography are very good. The transition into adulthood, respect for others, for a “Crazy Heart” Country Singer & Song Writer (Jeff Bridges) is the focus of this movie which involves a short lived romance with Maggie Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal plays an intelligent and strong female character which is refreshing to see over the “typical” Hollywood female roles that involve type-a unstable mentalities. Robert Duval and Collin Farrell also play good supporting roles. In general, there may be no major action in this movie but it has a solid “coming of age” script, with good acting and some good music too... You'll enjoy watching this movie if you liked: Pure Country, Tender Mercies...
- by tejas2201 Feb, 2011
Jeff Bridges does it again
Jeff Bridges has done it again, I have seen in in my movies & he just gets better & better. The music is very good. Don't care for the swearing. Why must Hollywood put in all that swearing? It would have been a much better movie without it. That's the reason for a scoring of good and not excellent.
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