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Crazy Heart
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Directed by
| Scott Cooper
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Screenplay by
| Scott Cooper
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Based on
| Crazy Heart
by
Thomas Cobb
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Produced by
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Starring
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Cinematography
| Barry Markowitz
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Edited by
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Music by
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Production
companies
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Distributed by
| Fox Searchlight Pictures
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Release dates
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Running time
| 112 minutes
[1]
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Country
| United States
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Language
| English
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Budget
| $7 million
[2]
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Box office
| $47.4 million
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Crazy Heart
is a 2009 American
drama
movie, written and directed by
Scott Cooper
. It is based on the 1987 novel
[3]
of the same name by
Thomas Cobb
.
It is about a
country music
singer-songwriter Otis Blake (
Jeff Bridges
) starts to fix his life after getting in a relationship with a young journalist Jean Craddock (
Maggie Gyllenhaal
).
Colin Farrell
,
Robert Duvall
,
Paul Herman
and Jack Nation also star.
It had strong positive reviews and Bridges won the
Academy Award for Best Actor
for his role as Otis Blake.