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Directed by | Shana Feste |
Written by | Shana Feste |
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Cinematography | John Bailey |
Edited by | Connor O'Neill |
Music by | Michael Brook |
Production company | Maguire Pictures |
Distributed by | Screen Gems (through Sony Pictures Releasing[1]) |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $12–15 million[2][3] |
Box office | $20.6 million[3] |
Country Strong is a 2010 American drama film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund, and Leighton Meester. The film, about an emotionally unstable country music star who attempts to revive her faltering career, was directed and written by American filmmaker Shana Feste. It premiered in Nashville, Tennessee on November 8, 2010, and had a wide release in the United States on January 7, 2011. This is the second film in which McGraw and Hedlund have worked together, the first being Friday Night Lights in 2004. At the 83rd Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Original Song ("Coming Home").
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