IMDb plot summary: A rising country-music songwriter works with a fallen star to work their way to fame, causing romantic complications along the way.
Directed by Shana Feste. Stars Garrett Hedlund, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Leighton Meester.
Country Strong stars Gwyneth Paltrow as a troubled country music star attempting a comeback. She's also caught up in some sort of tangled love quadrangle with her husband/manager, played by Tim McGraw, and two up-and-coming singers, played by Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester. The film is such a boring, messy, weirdly pretentious slog that it’s hard to care about any of it. Somehow Tim McGraw ends up being the best actor in the cast, which I did NOT see coming, and says a lot for the fact that he's in a movie with many more seasoned actors. The plot mostly consists of everyone cheating on everyone else and making pretentious statement about what "real music" is, and the script is asking too much of us to stay emotionally invested in that. The movie wants to be a raw, soulful drama, but it’s ultimately just a messy, boring film that takes itself far more seriously than it should.
How it entered my Flickchart:
🎥 Country Strong (2010)
📊 Ranked #3484/4081 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 15
lost to De-Lovely (#2038 → #2035)
lost to Spider-Man: Homecoming (#3057 → #2836)
lost to Johnny Tremain (#3569 → #3570)
beat Duane Hopwood (#3823 → #3825)
beat Road to Morocco (held at #3696)
beat White Comanche (#3632 → #3633)
beat I, Robot (#3600 → #3601)
beat You Were Never Really Here (#3584 → #3589)
beat Hangman's Curse (#3576 → #3578)
beat Madigan (#3572 → #3575)
lost to The Importance of Being Earnest (#3570 → #3349)
lost to My Family (#3571 → #3572)
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