COUNTRY STRONG

Year: 2010
USA: Screen Gems / Sony Pictures Releasing
UK: Sony Pictures Releasing
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund, Leighton Meester, Alana Grace, Katie Groshong, Ed Bruce, Jeremy Childs, Jim O'Rear, Sean Symons, Kayla Perkins, Dawn Lyn, Jeffrey Buckner Ford,
Director: Shana Feste
Country: USA
UK: 117 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for thematic elements involving alcohol abuse and some sexual content
UK Certificate: 12A contains references to alcoholism and suicide
USA Release Date: 7 January 2011
USA Release Date: 22 December 2010 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 25 March 2011


Synopsis

Beau Hutton (Garrett Hedlund) is a rising young singer-songwriter. However soon after a gets involved with Kelly Canter (Gwyneth Paltrow), a fallen, emotionally unstable country star, the pair embarks on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager James Canter (Tim McGraw) and featuring a beauty-queen-turned -singer Chiles Stanton (Leighton Meester). Between concerts and romantic entanglements old demons threaten to derail them all.