It seems that Fox Searchlight, desperate to have at least one film out by the end of the year (looks like they oddly don’t have enough on their plate this season) will be bumping Crazy Heart up to a December 16 release date. It’s a little romantic drama of sorts, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and the omnipresent Jeff Bridges, alongside Robert Duvall.
Written and directed by actor Scott Cooper, Crazy Heart centers around “the story of boozing and broken-down country singer Bad Blake (Bridges), who finds redemption with the help of a young journalist (Gyllenhaal).” I don’t know about you, but it would be refreshing to see Bridges not play alcoholics so often in his latter years. He’s becoming sort of typecast.
Crazy Heart was originally a novel by Thomas Cobb, so if you’re interested, check that out!
