Cause there are skeptics and haters everywhere (and sometimes we’re accused of that as well) surely, some are going to call this one corny or cheesy, but we don’t hear it.
You’ve already heard some of it in the trailer, Ryan Bingham’s “Weary Heart” written with T-Bone Burnett exclusively for the country music film “Crazy Heart” starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall and Colin Farrell, is soulful, dolorous and appropriately weathered. This does sound like the theme to someone who’s been kicked around their entire life and feels not unlike the beaten-but-licked tone of Bruce Sprinsteen’s “The Wrestler” song. We dig it (or at least this writer surely does). Stephen Bruton and T Bone Burnett wrote the film’s score and we can’t wait to hear that in its entirety as well.
Bingham hails from New Mexico and his band the Dead Horses, released their third album Roadhouse Sun earlier this summer (a video of theirs is embedded below).
“Crazy Heart” stars Jeff Bridges as a down and out aging country star trying to get his life together, Maggie Gyllenhaal appears as the reporter who falls for him, Colin Farrell as the young country star (who evidently isn’t in the film all that much) and Duvall plays Bridges’ wise father. The picture hits theaters December 16, 2009 and is already getting lots of Oscar buzz for Bridges’ performance. If it’s as good as they say, he’s a lock for Best Actor, because he’s due (nominated four times and never won) and that’s Oscar politics (We still love Colin Firth from “A Single Man,” but now that Bridges has entered the race, Firth will likely have to wait his turn — this is what we detest about the Oscars the most).