By Todd Hatton
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Paducah, KY – Thirty-eight years after his first Oscar nomination for The Last Picture Show, Jeff Bridges finally took home a Best Actor award for Crazy Heart, the film playing this week at Paducah's Maiden Alley Cinema. It co-stars Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, is the story of a past-his-prime country singer with plenty of talent left trying out-run his demons. Todd Hatton and Larry Thomas look at Crazy Heart.
Crazy Heart
Starring Jeff Bridges (Best Actor Academy Award 2010)
and Maggie Gyllenhaal
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 (Golden Globe Nominee 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.
1 HOUR & 52 MINUTES 2009 Directed by Scott Cooper
Visit Maiden Alley Cinema's web site for show times and ticket information.