Variety
That rare ensemble piece in which all four principals are not only compellingly drawn but handled with an astute sense of dramatic balance.
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Country Strong
Drama about an up-and-coming country music star (Garrett Hedlund, TRON: Legacy) who sparks with a has-been singer (Gwyneth Paltrow, Iron Man).
"Soon after a rising young singer-songwriter gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star, the pair embarks on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager and featuring a beauty-queen-turned-singer. Between concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all." (Official Synopsis)
2010117 minsUSA
DramaMusic
- Director:
- Shana Feste ('The Greatest')
- Writer:
- Shana Feste
- Cast:
- Gwyneth PaltrowTim McGrawGarrett HedlundLeighton MeesterMarshall ChapmanLari White
Country Strong / Reviews
The New York Times
Though seriously miscast as an unreformed alcoholic, the bronzed Ms. Paltrow gets by with a thin, serviceable voice (she sings her own songs) and an actor's confidence.
Full reviewRoger Ebert
Country Strong is a throwback, a pure, heartfelt exercise in '50s social melodrama.
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Hollywood Reporter
Feste, who has one previous effort as a writer-director, last year's "The Greatest," fails here to do the most basic thing -- give an audience a rooting interest, or any interest at all, in these four troubled people.
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