Crazy Heart

When Tommy and Bad walk out of a restaurant supposedly in Phoenix, cars are shown with Arizona license plates on their front bumpers.

Arizona does not provide license plates for front bumpers.

When Bad opens the Suburban's driver's door while talking to Jean, the door mirror is "fogged over" to prevent the crew and equipment from being visible in the mirror.

In several shots, the Suburban's driver's side door mirror is turned inward toward the door when Bad get in, but is in the normal position when the Suburban is going down the road.

During the scene where Tommy meets Bad at the restaurant and Tommy has a bottle of Smart Water filled with whiskey you can see the bottle changing positions between each cut away, or see how it was moved between each take.

It is obvious the pee bottle emptying shot was made prior to the crane shot of Bad parking at the bowling alley, as the puddle from that shot is evident next to the parking spot as he pulls in.

When Blake enters the rear entrance of the open air venue in Phoenix, reflections of the camera operator are visible in the red truck.

When Blake and Tommy talk in the outside after the bar scene, reflections of the camera team are visible in Blake's sunglasses.

When Blake re-enters the stage at the bowling center, he puts his hat on loosely with the brim tilted to the front.

A second later in the following shot, his hat is on tightly, with the brim tilted to the rear.

When Bad jumps off stage to dance with a fan, he hurriedly puts his guitar back on to continue the song.

The guitar strap is twisted, but in the rest of the shots it is straightened out again.

When establishing a phone call to his long-lost Son, Bad puts telephone into his right hand; after the cut, the phone is in his left hand, where it stays till the end of the scene.

Bad is driving down the road in the '78 Suburban that has old faded paint.

When it is rolled down the hill, it has suddenly been freshly painted exactly like it appears in its next scene, which occurred after repairs had supposedly been made.

The sequence of filming was apparently to wait until the all other scenes had been made using the Suburban and then rolling it down the hill.

When Jane forces the truck door open to flirt with Blake, she stands in the doorway with her right hand against her right lower back.

Seen from inside the truck, she has it elevated and holding the doorframe, supporting herself on the running board.

When the Suburban crashes it rolls over a fence.

In the next shot the fence disappears.

During the sound check before the Phoenix concert, the ear piece on Bear's (the sound tech) head switches sides at least twice.

In an act of contrition Bad turns over the large song royalty check he has just received to Jean Craddock admonishing her to use it for her son's future.

However, as it would have undoubtedly been made out to his name she would have been unable to cash it.

After Bad crashes and rolls the Suburban, there is a shot through the driver's side window of him lying on the passenger side floor.

The shift lever on the Suburban is in "PARK".

The Suburban is stated to be a 1978 model, but the body side moldings have a yellow/gold painted insert which was only available for one model year, "1977".

When Bad and Wayne are out fishing, as the camera draws back for a long shot, you can see mountain tops in the upper left hand corner of the screen just above the tops of the trees.

There are no such mountains anywhere around Houston.

During the sound check before the Phoenix concert, the tattoo on Bear's (the sound tech) left arm changes twice (probably at the same time the ear piece changes).

Bad's house in Houston has spruce tree in the front yard.

In a later scene where Jean is leaving with her son a mature fir tree can be seen down the street.

These trees don't grow in Houston.

The first time Bad leaves Jean's house, the left front fender of the Suburban says "Silverado", the second time he leaves Jean's house, after the roll over, it says "Scottsdale" which means they used at least two trucks.

"Bad" Blake (Jeff Bridges) was once a famous country singer-songwriter (although how big and how famous are never clearly spelt out), but he has now slid to the very bottom of the greasy music pole: now a reluctant opening act or playing small shows in bowling alleys or suchlike dingy places.Age, booze and multiple divorces have taken further toll on his mind and body.

In the space of a year Jeff Bridges gave 2 standout performances and in doing so, created 2 classic characters Bad Blake in Crazy Heart and shortly thereafter, the definitive portrayal of Rooster Cogburn (surpassing that of the Duke's in my estimation) in the Coen Brothers remake of True Grit. Both were Oscar - winning acts, but he did in fact take it for Bad Blake and how well-deserved it is.

Crazy Heart (2009): Dir: Scott Cooper / Cast: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Paul Herman: Engaging country music fiction biography about the things one cannot help do wrong. Jeff Bridges plays washed out country music musician Bad Blake who is reduced to performing small bar gigs.

I don't get why Jeff Bridges keeps doing these movies about sloppy people. I thought it stunk.

One of the best films in the last 11 years. Watch it until the end.

It is a good movie of a sad story of an alcoholic musician. The performance of Jeff Bridges is excellent.

With all the talent in the world to do and be happy, but having talent is not synonymous with intelligence, and it has been shown over and over again. Most of the human beings learn, when it is almost too late, but it punishes you is the same that is benevolent with you, time.

This film's strength is supposedly the acting of Jeff Bridges as the protagonist. Sure, he was convincing as a washed up alcoholic country music star, but he didn't really have much to work with.

This is a movie about a country music singer, his life full of smoke and drink and at a certain point the love would do the miracle, but unfortunately, at least here, it's too late. But it teaches that an alcoholic has everything to lose and you don't have to get sober because of a woman, to try to conquer her again, but you have to stop drinking for living a better life, to take care of yourself, to start a new life and in this case, to start again to write success songs.