The Savoy Theater

THE SAVOY THEATER
26 Main Street
Montpelier, VT 05602

Recording:
802-229-0509
VT toll-free recording:
800-676-0509
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802-229-0598
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802-223-0050
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800-898-0050
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CRAZY HEART

Oscar Nominees ~ Best Actor & Best Supporting Actress
Jeff Bridges & Maggie Gyllenhaal

5:00, 7:15 & 9:30 every night!
Weekend matinees: (Sat. & Sun.) 12:15 & 2:30
Weekday matinees: (Mon. & Wed.) 2:00

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times,

There's a powerful symmetry at work in "Crazy Heart" that's impossible to resist. It's a parallel between protagonist Bad Blake, a country singer whose entire life has led him to a nadir of disintegration, and star Jeff Bridges, whose exceptional film choices have put him at the height of his powers just in time to make Mr. Blake the capstone role of his career.

It's a mark of how fine a performance Bridges gives that it succeeds beautifully even though the besotted, bedeviled country singer has been an overly familiar popular culture staple (Rip Torn in "Payday," Robert Duvall in "Tender Mercies," Hank Williams and Merle Haggard in their own lives) for forever.

No Jeff Bridges performance, however, ends up looking anything like familiar. With dozens of roles -- as well as four Oscar nominations (a fifth for this one is a lock) -- behind him in a nearly 40-year career, he has a deep understanding that great acting is not self-conscious but a result of seamless transformation into someone else.

As written and directed by first-time filmmaker Scott Cooper, Bad Blake at age 57 is a broke and falling apart country music legend, the veteran of four marriages and non-stop dissipation now reduced to playing in bowling alley bars called "The Spare Room" and saying things like, "It's good to be here, at my age it's good to be anywhere" and "I used to be somebody, now I'm somebody else." Read more..

Rated R; 111 minutes.