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There’s one reason “Crazy Heart” is a must-see: Jeff Bridges. The veteran actor has done consistently great work for decades, but this intriguing meander down the borderline of the music biz and “real life” offers Bridges a role that plays especially well to his strengths as a humanist naturalist with an inborn gift for entertainment.

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