Crazy Heart (2009)

Gary said that he was much more interested in the story between hard-living country singer Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) and Tommy Sweet (Colin Farrell), the protege who now overshadows him. I completely agree.

Instead the choice was made to focus on his relationship with small-town single mom Maggie Gyllenhaal (not nearly good enough to justify her Oscar nom) and the movie suffered during each of the scenes we spent in her company.

All scenes that took place on-stage were simply fantastic.

C+