{"id":336518,"date":"2011-03-24T23:21:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T23:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/24\/gwyneth-paltrow-in-country-strong-hits-all-the-wrong-notes-as-a-washed-up-country-singer\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T23:21:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T23:21:34","slug":"gwyneth-paltrow-in-country-strong-hits-all-the-wrong-notes-as-a-washed-up-country-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/24\/gwyneth-paltrow-in-country-strong-hits-all-the-wrong-notes-as-a-washed-up-country-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwyneth Paltrow in Country Strong hits all the wrong notes as a washed-up country singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"82.6184364061\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Chris+Tookey\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Tookey<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 11:21 PM on 24th March 2011<\/p>\n<p>Verdict: <span>Screenplay feeble<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span><span><span title=\"Country Strong: Clean livin' Gwyneth hits all the wrong notes as a washed-up country singer\n\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"Chris Tookey\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"2011-03-24T23:21+0000\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nRating: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rating\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1d030b2fg_showbiz_1.gif.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"9\" alt=\"1 Star Rating\" title=\"1 out of 5\" \/><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is a cheesy soap opera that dearly wants to be a country and western All About Eve. The songs aren\u2019t too bad; the dialogue is.<\/p>\n<p>A weirdly miscast Gwyneth Paltrow is plainly too clean-livin\u2019 and just plain dull to play a washed-up alcoholic country star, abducted from rehab a month early by her manager\/husband (Tim McGraw). She\u2019s about as convincing as Justin Bieber would be attempting the Jeff Bridges role in Crazy Heart. <\/p>\n<p>Though Paltrow is an adequate singer, she\u2019s out-acted and out-sung by her two junior co-stars, the gruff-voiced Garrett Hedlund (much more likeable here than he was in Tron: Legacy) and baby-faced Leighton Meester (more nuanced than she is allowed to be in TV\u2019s Gossip Girl). Hedlund, in particular, has charisma to spare.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/abae7a42151_468x358.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"358\" alt=\"All washed-out: Gwyneth Paltrow is badly miscast in this poorly scripted film\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All washed-out: Gwyneth Paltrow is badly miscast in this poorly scripted film<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The big weakness is Shana Feste\u2019s abysmal script, which does not even rise to the level of American daytime television. The cliches come thick and slow, and the relationships are nebulous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We never discover why the star\u2019s husband took her out of rehab: greed, or an ill-founded faith in her resilience? <\/p>\n<p>The film trudges towards a tragic denouement that is not remotely moving.<\/p>\n<p>The movie\u2019s message is supposed to be that love and fame don\u2019t go together. But all the film really shows is that it\u2019s a big mistake to leave rehab before you\u2019re ready \u2014 and an even more egregious error to put on a musical when the libretto is as lousy as this one.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/abae7a42151_468x358.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/reviews\/article-1369728\/Gwyneth-Paltrow-Country-Strong-hits-wrong-notes-washed-country-singer.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Gwyneth Paltrow in Country Strong hits all the wrong notes as a washed-up country singer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gwyneth Paltrow in Country Strong hits all the wrong notes as a washed-up country singer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Chris Tookey Last updated at 11:21 PM on 24th March 2011 Verdict: Screenplay feeble Rating: This is a cheesy soap opera that dearly wants to be a country and western All About Eve. The songs aren\u2019t too bad; the dialogue is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-336518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gwyneth Paltrow in Country Strong hits all the wrong notes as a washed-up country singer - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/24\/gwyneth-paltrow-in-country-strong-hits-all-the-wrong-notes-as-a-washed-up-country-singer\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Gwyneth Paltrow in Country Strong hits all the wrong notes as a washed-up country singer - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Chris Tookey Last updated at 11:21 PM on 24th March 2011 Verdict: Screenplay feeble Rating: This is a cheesy soap opera that dearly wants to be a country and western All About Eve. 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