Bridges' guileless performance makes this piquant little indie tale of country music, redemption, and the love of a pretty younger woman such a sad-song charmer.

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It takes forever for Benjamin to notice that the pretty, down-to-earth woman with the keys is staring at him in a certain way.

NEWYORKER: Lost Love

She was a bone-thin woman with a pretty face, dark eyes, and brown hair that hung down her back.

NEWYORKER: Beginners

As for the pretty younger woman, that's where writer-director Scott Cooper's otherwise bull-free first feature, based on a novel by Thomas Cobb, goes soft.

CNN: Review: 'Crazy Heart' an indie charmer

The 62-year-old, whose credits include Pretty Woman, will collect the Marcus Aurelius acting prize at the gala, which begins on 27 October.

BBC: Actor Richard Gere to collect Rome Film Festival honour

The producers, looking for an audience-pleasing oddity, suggested the pretty young woman try boxing as her specialty.

WSJ: Popular psychologist Joyce Brothers dead at 85

His love of publicity has come into its own, dressing up and playing the fool, becoming a master of the photo-opportunity, usually with a bottle of champagne and a pretty woman or several.

BBC: Branson delighted with knighthood

Even in our pleasantly postfeminist era, in which pretty much everyone wears jeans, the predominant image of a fashionable, dressed-up woman is still a feminine one: heels, dresses, makeup.

WSJ: Girls Will Be Boys | Fashion

Showtime-HD (1080i): Beauty Shop (6 p.m.), Pretty Woman (8 p.m.), The L Word (10 p.m.), Showtime Championship Boxing: Reyes vs.

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I've never met an Indian woman rich or poor, upper or lower caste, pretty or homely, young or middle-age who hasn't been harassed.

WSJ: India Needs a Sexual Revolution