Crazy Heart (2009)
Jeff Bridges won an Oscar for his portrayal of a washed up country and western singer in this film and it is very hard not to see similarities with The Wrestler (2008) which earned Mickey Rourke an Oscar nomination for the same award as star of that film. Both films are about down and out former stars of their profession, struggling to come to terms with poor life choices and addiction.
What disappoints me about this film is that it labours for too long on how bad the central characters life is and what a mess he has made of it before he has his moment of clarity and decides to get clean then very little is shown of the hard process he has to go through to turn his life around. If you are going to go for the happy ending then I do think that your character(s) should have to earn it.
This is not a bad film, there are good performances from all the cast but I feel that The Wrestler just did this story a lot better. 3/5
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