Chiles Stanton : I've been writing songs. I got a whole bunch of them right over there. Chiles Stanton : [sings mockingly] I've got friends in low places where the whiskey drowns Chiles Stanton : Hello James! Hi, Mrs. Would you mind signing this for me, please? Kelly Canter : Sure! Chiles Stanton : Thank you so much! If you have any advice for a young artist such as myself, I'd love to hear it. Kelly Canter : K: Oh, I have some advice. Chiles Stanton : And James is being so helpful!
I won't sell it on e-Bay or anything, I've just been a fan of yours since I was a little girl. Kelly Canter : Thank you. Thank you so much. Chiles Stanton : [to James] This is amazing, James! It's so beautiful, I don't even wanna pee in the toilet! James Canter : You didn't think this is for you, did you? Chiles Stanton : No! God, no. James Canter : Okay. See you in Houston. Beau Hutton : What are you looking at? Chiles Stanton : Beau Hutton : What does "amorous" means?
Chiles Stanton : Having a propensity for falling in love. Beau Hutton : [laughing] What the hell are these things? Chiles Stanton : Well And my pageant training doesn't exactly help things, so I have to overcompensate. I don't want people to think I'm some dumb beauty queen.
Beau Hutton : I never called you a dumb beauty queen. I'm serious, anybody that says "ignoramous" so casually Beau's Bandmate : Ugh. Why don't y'all sleep together and get this over with? Reporter : Chiles, who is your idol?
Kelly Canter : They love her. Chiles Stanton : How do I look? Beau Hutton : Like a Country Barbie. Chiles Stanton : [happy] Thank you! Chiles Stanton : Don't make me say it. As James, he wears his heart on his sleeve, giving this no nonsense businessman a little more depth than one would expect in the character. Unfortunately, that emotion is too rare and when visible, is not used to its best advantage to create a meaningful connection with Paltrow, thus further detracting from two fine performances.
The real standout though is Garrett Hedlund. He steals your heart and the film as Beau. Masculine, more than a modicum of integrity, not only can he sing, but he has layers of emotion that not only blend with each of the other principals, but with the music. A subject that has built in emotional and dramatic gravitas up the wazoo, the dialogue falls short and the characters, but for Beau, are too one dimensional, lacking connectivity not only with each other and the audience.
There is a permeating shallowness to each character as the story itself as it lacks completeness, being riddled with holes in relationships and backstory. But for whatever reason, Feste chose to keep going and going, killing any positivity quicker than a bad chorus lyric. Was anyone actually watching the film as it was cut? I stopped counting the number of times Paltrow has black mascara streaming down her face, covering her face all smeared, and then she looks up and without having wiped her face, she is clean as a whistle.
Same with her hair. With many of the individual scenes, one has to question how many takes were used to achieve a final edit of what we see on screen. I have never seen hair go from big and poofy and curly to flat as a pancake back to poofy and perfectly curly all in the same song.
This is why God invented hair spray people — get it poofy and keep it poofy. Get it flat and keep it flat. Distracting to a fault. Thankfully, John Bailey who just happens to be married to editor Littleton was on board as cinematographer and raises the bar on an otherwise unremarkable film.
We first meet her in rehab, where she's trying to recover from an alcohol-fuelled Britney-style meltdown on stage. Sprawled over her bed, she's improvising a song with her beau, handily called Beau, a talented young singer at the start of his career, played by the very appealing Garrett Hedlund. In marches her husband and manager, James skilfully played as a semi-creep by Tim McGraw, a genuine country star. He wants her to make a comeback tour of Texas before she's ready and just doesn't understand how fragile she's become.
Their marriage is on the rocks, too. When she tells him she's just had a Brazilian bikini wax, he rolls over in bed, saying: "I'll see you in eight hours. Kelly wants Beau to open the bill for her but James favours a pretty young girl, Chiles Stanton Leighton Meester, porcelain-skinned , whose only previous experience has been in pageants.
When Chiles asks Beau how she looks before going on stage, he laconically replies: "Like a country Barbie. Big-hearted Beau kindly rescues Chiles from stage fright and they're both hired for the doomed tour - and there's our film. These four are in and out of each other's hotel suites and dressing rooms, each other's arms and beds. Young Chiles is on the way up, Kelly's on the way out - and Beau's caught between. As an alcoholic wreck, clean living Gwynnie is almost perfectly unsuited, looking particularly fit and well, not to mention supremely clean, at all times, as though she'd be more at home in a juice bar than a boozy dive.
When she throws up into a bin, you actually don't believe it. Our Gwynnie puking?
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