Crazy Heart

“The harder the life, the sweeter the song.”

Why is Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges), a country singer who once filled big rooms, now playing bowling alleys and bars on a circuit of small towns? Jean Craddock (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a reporter, comes to interview him, and she and her young son become a possible way out of his drinking. Scott Cooper's first feature has Blake trying to be the man they could stay with, and the drink does not make it easy.