Country Strong

Country Strong

6.1IMDb Score
Released:2010-12-22
Duration:117 min
Director:Shana Feste
Actors:Gwyneth Paltrow, Garrett Hedlund, Tim McGraw, Leighton Meester, Marshall Chapman
Production:Maguire Entertainment, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Material Pictures, TVM Studios

Overview:

Soon after the rising young singer-songwriter Beau Williams gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star Kelly Canter, the pair embark on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager James and featuring a beauty queen-turned-singer Chiles Stanton. Between concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.

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