Aging CW star crawls into a bottle while his career goes down the toilet and THEN ----- he finds a good woman. With her help he kicks the booze and his career takes off again. That's really a crappy story though jeff bridges, as always, was great. Loved that scene where he fished his sunglasses out of the garbage can he was puking in.
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Car crashes mean car sales - GM loves speeders and DUIs and other highway criminals.
What faith based? Other than Robert Duval singing a gospel song at the end of the credits I didn't see anything about church or religion. Bridges went to an AA group to sober up but we saw almost no details.
The entertainment business is rife with stories of people on alcohol or drugs. I think many of them would be total misfits in any other line of work. They can draw on the pain of child neglect, abuse while growing up to succeed as entertainers, writers, composers etc. But along the way they often stumble and fall from coping with that early negativivty.
And some never get up again.
I wouldn't say that it was "based" in faith, but I felt it made a deliberate nod to Christianity when he starts to pick himself up and writes a song about angels. Then as he continues to clean up, they start shooting him in softer focus and greater saturation until he starts looking like Jesus. They didn't hit us over the head with it, but I thought it was pretty deliberate.
shareNo. Well I don't think so anyway.
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