Synopsis
Academy Award winner:
Jeff Bridges (Actor in a Leading Role)
Best Original Song ("The Weary Kind" - Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett)

“Jeff Bridges gives a powerful, moving performance.”— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“A juicy, career-crowning role. Bridges -- a master of subtle brilliance -- plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off but by going bone-deep into a character who only thinks he’s running on empty. ‘Crazy Heart’ may finally win him the Oscar that’s unfairly eluded him and it offers the pleasure of watching a great actor at the peak of his form.”—Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“Jeff Bridges more than delivers the goods for Oscar eligibility. He is the mesmerizing, dangerous, unpredictable heart of ‘Crazy Heart’.”—Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter

“Bridges now stands as one of Hollywood’s great pros, incapable of making a false move.”—Todd McCarthy, Variety



“It's a mark of how fine a performance Bridges gives that it succeeds beautifully even though the besotted, bedeviled country singer has been an overly familiar popular culture staple (Rip Torn in ‘Payday,’ Robert Duvall in ‘Tender Mercies,’ Hank Williams and Merle Haggard in their own lives) for forever.”—Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

Four time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film CRAZY HEART from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man’s crazy heart.