Singin' the blues

Rating: 7/10 (29 January 2010)

Jeff Bridges plays a drunk, depressed rock/blues/country singer with a guitar over his shoulder and a chip on it. He sings well, channeling Kris Kistofferson. His experiences with slender, 30-something reporter Maggie Gyllenhaal and her angel-faced son convince him to clean up and change his ways.
The singing is good; the writing is tight; the cinematography is impeccable.The movie does not insult your intelligence except for one plot element: the unbelievable attraction that the young reporter feels for the repulsive slob the singer has let himself become. I am still waiting for the movie in which a foul-mouthed unwashed, drunk, flatulent, overweight, rude WOMAN attracts a cute, slender young MAN.