If 60's is the new 40's, then I guess a mid-life crisis, accordingly, comes a few years later than at "actual mid-life". If you've been up and down the musical scale of life and suddenly you hit a note way below the F clef note, "no matter how far you've walked in the wrong direction, you have to go back" as the old Turkish proverb says... and so it is that Bridges's character, BAD Blake, hits a wall where redemption or tragedy, or both, might fall his way.
Supposedly based on Country Music artist Merle Haggard, but not openly disclosed due to legal battles amongst a few of his ex-wives for rights to his story, Crazy Heart portrays a poignant battle between addiction, love and overall sense of accomplishment, for a knocked down- but not out- has been.
Through the eyes of Bad Blake you'll experience the ups and downs... though mostly downs, of a hard hit life that goes in and out of relationships without any discernible quest for stability, until he finds comfort and peace in the arms of a lovely reporter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)... will he be able to hold on. Definitely Rent or Buy this movie, it's strong performances will likely convert this one into a classic.
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