Written by Shana Feste
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First, I have to admit that I do not like country music very much. I can handle some alt-country and old country & western like Johnny Cash. This movie is about pop country. Even the Beau character, who is supposed to be more of a singer/songwriter type of country music, sounds like pure country pop to me.
Gwenyth Paltrow, who is very good here, stars as an alcoholic country star who is trying to make a comeback after a drunken escapade in Dallas several months before. She brings Beau, a guy she’s been sleeping with, and Chiles, a former beauty queen, on the road opening for her. They travel around and have trouble, and butt heads with her husband/manager. Pure melodrama with country songs.
I dislike country music and melodrama, but I did not dislike this movie as much as I expected to. I don’t even know why I watched it. I felt compelled to, and I don’t know why. I don’t feel like it enriched my life in any meaningful way. I did find Gwenyth Paltrow to be very attractive and she sings well. Not a good movie, but not flat-out terrible.
5.5/10
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