American Heart News

Whenever the holidays roll around and Oscar season begins in earnest, there's always one movie or performance that takes everyone by surprise, and this year, it's Scott Cooper's Crazy Heart and the amazing performance by Jeff Bridges that's the very heart and soul of the film.

Jeff Bridges is picking up chatter about the Best Actor award for Crazy Heart. Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children's movie Surf's Up , the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an animated penguin declaiming a few of his lines from The Big Lebowski .

When I reported on Crazy Heart in 2008, the film was affiliated with the CMT network, yet drew my interest with a cast that included Jeff Bridges , Maggie Gyllenhaal , and Robert Duval .

In "The Men Who Stare at Goats," Jeff Bridges plays Bill Django, a military man who returns from Vietnam to embrace the '60s counterculture headlong - the whole Aquarian Age, flower power, altered states of consciousness thing.

Jeff Bridges has a full dance card. At the moment, Bridges, 59, stars as an alcoholic country singer in the upcoming Crazy Heart; as the hero of Tron Legacy, a special effects-laden sci-fi adventure due in 2010; and as a peacenik hippie leader of a psychic army unit in The Men Who Stare At Goats, which opens Friday.

American Heart , 1992 & Bad Company , 1972 SYNOPSIS : Bridges plays Jack . Jack has a problem with alcohol and just got out of jail.

A talented actor with angular, androgynous looks and a hardened yet fragile air perfectly suited for portraying troubled youth, Edward Furlong first appeared onscreen in James Cameron's 1991 action blockbuster.... A talented actor with angular, androgynous looks and a hardened yet fragile air perfectly suited for portraying troubled youth, Edward ...

A talented actor with angular, androgynous looks and a hardened yet fragile air perfectly suited for portraying troubled youth, Edward Furlong first appeared onscreen in James Cameron's 1991 action blockbuster.... A talented actor with angular, androgynous looks and a hardened yet fragile air perfectly suited for portraying troubled youth, Edward ...