Congratulations to the Ocsar bloggers so bored with this predictable awards season that they’ve basically forced Fox Searchlight’s hand.
To recap, “Amelia” sucked, so Searchlight had no Oscar contender, but then thought, “wait, we have…” the country music drama, “Crazy Heart,” starring Colin Farrell, Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall in the queue.
The film was supposed to hit for Spring 2010, but with zero Oscar hopefuls, Searchlight screened it for a few select critics this week to gauge their interest. They approved! Voila. Now “Crazy Heart” is being rushed into screens on December 16. We’re all for it. It sounds great and T. Bone Burnett (“O Brother, Where Art Thou?”) wrote the original music.
Now all we need to do is see it and figure out if it’s as good as they say or if it’s just desperate Oscar writers thankful for something new and halfway decent to write about. It’s probably a 50/50 call (i.e. look at overrated things like the Lifetime Movie “Trucker” being drooled over because… why does a dog lick its balls again?)