I wasn’t looking forward to seeing this movie about a country singer, Kelly Canter (Paltrow) getting out of rehab for alcohol abuse, mostly at the urging of her husband (Tim McGraw) who wants to get her back on tour again.  One of her opening acts is Beau Hutton (Garrett Hedlund) who helped “take care” of her while she was in treatment.  Her other opening act is an up and coming country singer and former beauty queen, Chiles Stanton who deals with the occasional bout of stage fright.  Surprisingly the story turned out to be much more complex and I found myself won over by the movie and enjoyed it.

Seeing a washed up (insert a talent profession here) trying to make a comeback is not a fresh story.  It has been told before; the question is whether the movie’s director can successfully follow the formula for this type of movie or fail.  More times than not it is the latter, but writer and director Shana Feste does a good job in delivering a solid movie regardless if you are a fan of country related material or not.