Crazy Heart

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Crazy Heart
Directed by Scott Cooper
Screenplay by Scott Cooper
Based on Crazy Heart
by Thomas Cobb
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Barry Markowitz
Edited by
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release dates
  • December 6, 2009  ( 2009-12-06 ) ( Santa Fe Film Festival )
  • December 16, 2009  ( 2009-12-16 ) (United States)
Running time
112 minutes [1]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $7 million [2]
Box office $47.4 million [2]

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.

References [ change | change source ]

  1. " Crazy Heart (15)" . British Board of Film Classification . December 21, 2009 . Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Crazy Heart" . Box Office Mojo . IMDb . Retrieved April 29, 2010 .
  3. Cobb, Thomas (1987). Crazy Heart . San Francisco: Harper & Row. ISBN   0-06-015803-4 .