Crazy Heart Trailer Starring Jeff Bridges
Is Crazy Heart going to be this year’s The Wrestler? Fox Searchlight is certainly hoping so… they’ve even inserted the phrase “broken-down” into the movie’s synopsis. The film stars Jeff Bridges as an alcoholic country singer named Bad Blake, who takes one last shot at redemption after meeting a journalist (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who is trying to get to the real story about his life. Okay, so maybe there’s a little bit of Anvil in there too?
The movie is the directorial debut of Scott Cooper, who up until now was best known as an actor (his previous credits include AMC’s western mini-series Broken Trail). Fox Searchlight was originally going to release Crazy Heart in the spring but decided to move up the release date in order to make a push for the Oscars. I’m sure we’d all love to see Jeff Bridges win one at this point in his career, but the field is looking crowded this year. What do you think, could this be the role that puts Bridges over the top? Crazy Heart hits select theatres on December 16th. Check out the trailer in HD over at Apple.com, or watch it embedded below.
Comments (4)
I would see it just for Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Posted by Bratwurst on November 17th, 2009Sure is Wrestler-esque!
Who is crowding the field at the oscars? I can’t think of other candidates off the top of my head.
Posted by Henrik on November 17th, 2009A lot of these movies aren’t officially released yet but I have heard the following actors all mentioned as being Oscar contenders thus far:
George Clooney (Up in the Air)
Viggo Mortensen (The Road)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Nine)
There’s also Brothers (not sure who would be considered the lead in that) and the guy from A Serious Man.
Posted by Sean on November 17th, 2009looks boring
Posted by Niklas on November 23rd, 2009Leave a Reply