"Crazy Heart"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL EPISODE. Please check out the full podcast episode on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Our 2009 retrospective has begun!! And we're kicking things off with Scott Cooper's film directorial debut, which won Jeff Bridges his Oscar, "Crazy Heart," which also stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, and Colin Farrell. With original music by T Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton, and Ryan Bingham, the film received positive reviews upon release and was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning two for Bridges and for the song "The Weary Kind." How does it hold up today? Join Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, Brendan Hodges, and me as we discuss our thoughts on the performances, writing, direction, music, its awards season run, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. We appreciate your support and hope you enjoy our discussion! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is our review of Crazy Heart.
0:05.4	Mr. Blake, I'm Gene Craddock from the Sun Seam.
0:09.1	Tape recorder, okay?
0:11.0	Go ahead, that's fine.
0:12.7	What's your real name?
0:15.1	I'm Bad Blake.
0:16.4	My Toonstone will have my real name on it.
0:18.3	Until then, I'm just going to stay bad.
0:24.6	Your heart's on to lose. You rode in sevens with nothing to lose.
0:28.6	Where are all those songs come from?
0:30.6	My, unfortunately.
0:32.6	I'm 57 years old, I'm broke
0:38.3	Why don't you sit down and write some songs?
0:40.3	I'm going to be able to call
0:41.3	You call all your shots
0:43.3	I keep feeling obliged to apologize being less
0:47.3	than you probably imagine me to be
0:50.3	Somehow this don't feel like home anymore.
0:55.2	We ought to go out and find some trouble to get into.
0:57.8	Yeah, big trouble.
0:59.4	All right, everyone, you were just listening to the trailer for Crazy Heart, and the story is as follows.
1:05.3	With too many years of hazy days and boozy nights, former country music legend Bad Blake is reduced to playing
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