Rotten
Paltrow gives it her best but is so conspicuously doing country. We're meant to believe she has spent half her life staring into a vodka bottle, but she glows like she's just stepped out of a yoga retreat.
Cath Clarke, Time Out
Country Strong
It doesn't matter where you've been as long as you come back strong.
2010 · 1h 57m · PG-13
Drama, Music, Romance
Directed by
Shana Feste
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Country Strong
Overview
Soon after the rising young singer-songwriter Beau Williams gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star Kelly Canter, the pair embark on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager James and featuring a beauty queen-turned-singer Chiles Stanton. Between concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.
Director and cast
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22%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Shana Feste's screenplay seldom rises above the level of daytime TV; the only actor who triumphs over her trite dialogue is Tim McGraw in a nonsinging role as Paltrow's husband and manager.
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
Rotten
If Feste actually believes that this show is country nirvana, she has no business making a country movie.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten
The movie isn't worth the scuffed cowgirl boots it's scooting around in.
David Fear, Time Out New York
Rotten
Unfortunately weak.
Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine
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