Country Strong

[yoco]

Release Date: December 22, 2010 (limited; expands: Jan. 7)
Studio: Screen Gems (Sony)
Director: Shana Feste
Screenwriter: Shana Feste
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund, Leighton Meester
Genre: Drama

Soon after a rising young singer-songwriter (Hedlund) gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star (Paltrow), the pair embarks on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager (McGraw) and featuring a beauty-queen-turned-singer (Meester). Between concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.

[slikrapid]

yawn, looks superficial, with mediocre acting (paltrow was rather annoying in iron man 2), must be a long time since someone made a country music related movie, can't leave the fans without their dosage

for very good country related movies see:
Crazy Heart (2009) biography/drama/touring, male performer
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) comedy, much more hillbilly oriented, but very enjoyable nevertheless
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) biography/drama/touring, female performer

for good gwyneth paltrow movies see:
Shallow Hal (2001)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
A Perfect Murder (1998) very good
Se7en (1995) excellent

btw, seems to me that country music is quite similar to pop music, in the sense that it prevalently serves for simple (minded) entertainment with low amounts of social or political criticism, though it may be more relevant concerning the depiction of actual life experiences/hardships