Crazy Heart

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.

Crazy Heart
Directed by	Scott Cooper
Screenplay by	Scott Cooper
Based on	Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb
Produced by	Robert Duvall Rob Carliner Judy Cairo T Bone Burnett Scott Cooper
Starring	Jeff Bridges Maggie Gyllenhaal Robert Duvall
Cinematography	Barry Markowitz
Edited by	John Axelrad Jeffrey Ford
Music by	Stephen Bruton T Bone Burnett Ryan Bingham
Production companies	Informant Media Butcher's Run Films Dune Entertainment
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]

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.