Additional information for Country Strong, which has a domestic theatrical release set for January 7, 2011. The film is being distributed by Screen Gems and has not yet been rated. Country Strong has a total running time of 117 minutes.
PG-13
USA
PG-13
Malaysia
PG
Canada
12A
Ireland
12A
UK
15
South Korea
PG
Singapore
Atp
Argentina
M/12
Portugal
12
Germany
6
Netherlands
11
Sweden
117min
30min
Aska sans ver
Turkey
Country Strong
Belgium
Ekei pou einai i agapi
Greece
Love Don't Let Me Down
USA
O Renascer da Estrela
Portugal
Onde o Amor Está!
Brazil
Reflektorfény
Hungary
Una nueva oportunidad
Argentina
November 08, 2010
USA
December 22, 2010
USA
January 07, 2011
Canada
January 07, 2011
USA
March 25, 2011
Ireland
March 25, 2011
UK
April 09, 2011
Spain
April 15, 2011
Norway
April 20, 2011
Spain
May 04, 2011
France
May 05, 2011
Greece
May 25, 2011
Belgium
June 09, 2011
Brazil
June 09, 2011
Germany
June 10, 2011
Italy
August 17, 2011
Sweden
August 24, 2011
Hungary
August 24, 2011
Japan
September 07, 2011
Argentina
September 27, 2011
Netherlands
January 11, 2012
Portugal
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A rising country-music songwriter works with a fallen star to work their way fame, causing romantic complications along the way.
WARNING! The Synopsis may contain Spoilers!Best Line: Fame and love cant live in the same place.Country Strong is a very well written and well acted movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow as the aging Kelly Canter; a country western star with a past, Tim McGraw as her husband/manager James Canter; Garrett Hedlund as Beau Hutton a young country western singer working part time at clubs and part time at a rehab center; and Leighton Meester as Chiles Stanton a Beauty Queen want-to-be country western star.Country Strong is a movie that takes a look at things most of us dont want to even acknowledge, addiction. The writer, Shana Feste does a very good job; shes either been there or knows someone close to her whos gone through it because shes captured very, very well small nuisances that most of us would not even see. Most times you see a movie and it shows one side or the other, but Country Strong shows that pain of the disease comes to both user and care giver; in this case, the talent, Kelly; and her husband/manager, James trying to save her career or at least to let her go out gracefully, but more towards keeping her on the stage and bringing in the money. What got her into rehab was being drunk at her concert, being pregnant, and tripping over a cord and falling ten feet losing the baby.We meet Kelly and Beau playing with song lyrics in the first scene at the rehab, after we get a performance by Garrett Hedlund singing. They are interrupted by Kellys husband, James, who is there to take Kelly out of rehab early and get her back working. This happens too often; usually the drinker convinces the care giver that they are fine now; the care giver wants to believe it, and even though it shouldnt happenthe addict leaves early with still no skills at dealing with the bumps in life.Then we meet Chiles Stanton getting ready to sing at a club to become Kellys opening act, even though Kelly wants Beau to open for her. Beau is offended to hear this Beauty Queen is singing at the famous club he sings at, feels she hasnt earned the right, isnt good enough, doesnt fit the mold after all, Patsy Cline had sung there. Really the situation represents her being there at all, that anyone is auditioning to be Kellys opening act because he believes she should stay in treatment and the last thing she should be doing is going back out on tour. Beau feeds Chiles some snide remarks, reminding her that she usually chokes when she tries to sing anyway. His prediction does indeed happen. After a few attempts of trying and freezing up he cant just let her go down like that so he starts a duet with her to get her started, whatever else Beau is, if he sees a solution his compassion kicks in and he has to help.James sees this as an opportunity to get someone on the road with them that will help with Chiles and with Kelly so he agrees to have Beau tour with them.Kelly is a typical fragile drunk out of rehab, she needed more time there; she has no skills, she still sees the world a bit skewed and she has no coping skills. Armed with nothing she attempts to return to the business that demands everything of her. She still has the alcoholics dramatic way of seeing what they want to see, not asking what is true or correct, but just taking that feeling and running with it. First concert: shes doing pretty good, then she stumbles onto an innocent conversation between James and Chiles about her wardrobe not clashing with Kellys and all Kelly sees is that James is interested in Chiles. Then a delivery man shows up with gifts from sponsors and special fans (screened) but somehow a box slips through and it has a doll with blood all over it Xed out eyes and the word Baby killer. That was more than she could stand so she did the only familiar thing, she fortified herself with a bottle of vodka.We get to see the care giver side a little. James has picked Kelly up early, she demands that Beau open for her. They are in bed and she asks him how talented she is, she needs to hear that he still sees her the same. She apologizes for Dallas (meaning losing the baby) and says that they should talk about it. Something she learned while in rehab, owning up up to what we did and facing what the other person has to say. Then she makes a romantic gesture and he announces he has just taken an Ambein and hell see her in eight hours. So at the concert she believes shes seen James in a clandestine situation and now she has gotten the doll; without enough rehab under her belt she returns to the only thing she knows works. Now it is up to James to get her out of the closet and on the stage. He gets her to let him in and he sits next to her trying to reason with her that there are sick people who will never forget and that she needs to prove them wrong and get out there and show them that she is not that person anymore. He begins to lose patience and tries to pull her from the closet and without thinking she slaps him. Now the oh so familiar alcoholic behavior, apologies, Ill do anything you want, please, Im sorry, please like me like I used to be. The caregiver now has the upper hand, he can get her to do whatever he wants. He gets her on stage, but she is drunk, the singing lasts only a short time then she starts blathering, forgetting where she is and what is expected of her. She tries one time to sing but ends up crying and has to be escorted off the stage.James becomes angry with Beau demanding to know where he was when she got the vodka. Beau replies, I was on stage! James becomes angry proclaiming that Beau should have some tricks up his sleeve to keep from doing this. Beau replies, Yeah, dont take her out of rehab before the rehab!The next tour stop is Austin, everyone worries if Kelly can hold it together for that performance. Kelly is trying desperately to have James the way they used to be. She remembers the way they used to be and wants him to see her the same way again. James feels like he lives with two different women, one is the one he fell in love with and the one he has no idea what shell do next. He seen her lose their baby, slap him, and fall apart on stage. Hes running out of excuses for her.Kelly sober and trying to rebound again, tries to see the world good again and decides Beau should see a recording studio because she feels certain he will be recording after this tour because it is natural for him, he doesnt care for who, he just loves writing and singing. When they arrive at the recording studio, Chiles is recording the song that she wanted to close her Dallas show with and record for herself. Since James is her manager she sees him as a conspirator and back stabber, so shes off and running again, though everyone thinks she went back to the trailer.James and Beau have an interesting conversation about what kind of man Beau thinks James must be. James admits he has no idea when she became so fragile, that she used be so strong, and that all she wanted was to be on stage. That he has no idea what to do with this new Kelly. Beau tells James that they should turn the bus around and put her back in rehab. James says he just cant let her go out like that; that at one time she had such a fire inside her and hopes that she can get that back. That James was her sponsor, he must have seen it, Beau admits that they both know he wasnt her sponsor, and James decks him.The Austin Show is doomed from the start. Believing that she is in the trailer, no one seems concerned until it gets close to show time and no one knows where she is; Beau figuring he can find the crap kind of bar shed end up in and he does find her. She is however completely smashed. He has Chiles bring a taxi down so that they can get her back, Kelly tells Chiles that Beau is a good guy. They unfortunately come in a door where the promoter sees her condition; Thats it were done.James again feels slapped in the face by that other Kelly. He just walks away. From the first botched concert her public relations outfit puts together good publicity by having her make an appearance for the Make a Wish Foundation where she would visit a little boy with leukemia. After the botched 2nd concert James tells her it has been cancelled. Kelly visits the promoter and gets the Dallas concert back. James is not really happy about this at all, but does his job.Kelly visits the school and a little boy named Travis who has leukemia and sings a song she makes up on the spot about him. Then she dances with him and gets the whole class to dance. James comes and dances with Kelly which surprises her and she loves it. To her it is just like when they were young and loved each other. After a few minutes James looks at her, stops dancing and walks down the hall and sits on a bench crying. This is the woman he loves, but how long will she be this woman, in his mind he sees her vomiting, slapping him, sleeping with other men, their lost baby, and he realizes he has to keep her at arms length because she has the power to hurt him so much, it is not easier to be her manager, she makes him look bad all the time, but as a wife and love, she could destroy him.When he pulls away, Kelly realizes that they will never have any other kind of relationship and, I believe it is then that she decides what she will do.Like I said, two people, a drinker and their care giver, share such a volatile relationship, the drinker needs to stop drinking and examine their drinking life. The caregiver has to decide for themselves whether they can risk whether they can take anymore. Alcohol is a legal drug, but it ruins more families, loses more jobs, kills more people, cuts production at the workplace more than all the other drugs combined.Her last show is very good.
Shana Feste
Director(s)
Shana Feste
Writer(s)
George Flynn
associate producer
Tobey Maguire
producer
Valerie Bleth Sharp
line producer: additional photography
Jenno Topping
producer
Meredith Zamsky
executive producer
Producer(s)
Michael Brook
Composer(s)
Kelly Canter
Gwyneth Paltrow
James Canter
Tim McGraw
Beau Hutton
Garrett Hedlund
Chiles Stanton
Leighton Meester
Winnie
Marshall Chapman
Hair Stylist
Lari White
JJ
Jeremy Childs
Joe
J.D. Parker
Travis' Mom (as Lisa Stewart Seals)
Lisa Stewart
Teacher
Jackie Welch
Misty
Cinda McCain
Travis
Gabe Sipos
Orderly
Sandra Harris
Megan Henderson
Megan Henderson
Bob
Dan Beene
Security
Keitrick Clark
Security Guard
Reegus Flenory
James's Assistant
Terri Minton
Clint
Ed Bruce
Tex
Darrin Dickerson
Ginny
Alana Grace
Richard's Assistant
Katie Groshong
Denise
Candace Michelle Coffee
Gossip Show Host
Katie Cook
PA #1
Adam Skaggs
PA #2
Travis Nicholson
PR Girl in Classroom
Denitia Odigie
Richard
Jeffrey Buckner Ford
Stylist
Jeri Sager
Biker (as Kirt Lahew)
Kirt Lehew
Doctor
Ranjit Bhullar
Interviewee
Tina White
Jesse Clark
Brett Warren
Fan
Olivia Haley
Fan
Jim Melton
Interviewer
Holly Watson
Interviewer
Brad Schmitt
Interviewer
Andy Cordan
Beau's Bandmate
Cory Younts
Beau's Bandmate
Skylar Wilson
Director(s)
Writer(s)
associate producer
Tobey Maguire
producer
Valerie Bleth Sharp
line producer: additional photography
Jenno Topping
producer
Meredith Zamsky
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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