Hearts of the West

Coming at the tail end of Jeff Bridges' string of interesting early '70s films -- The Last Picture Show, Fat City, Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, and Rancho Deluxe -- I can understand why Hearts of the West tends to get overlooked. It's a simple and amiable Depression-era comedy…

Sonny_Jim

When I first moved to LA in early 2000s I lived just around the corner from Sunset Blvd and Gower Street or as it was nicknamed back in the golden days "Gower Gulch." By 2004 it housed Sunset Gower Studios and a shopping center with a Rite-Aid and a Baskin Robbins, but…

C.A. DeStefanis

If I hadn't already seen Matlock in A Face in the Crowd, Andy Griffith talking about sexual deviancy might've been more traumatizing. A fanciful little flick that was only possible in an era when Hollywood was churning out hundreds of movies a year and no one theater…

Johnny_Upton

Jeff Bridges in a bathtub: 😍 😍 😍 Andy Griffith being lecherous at a strip club: childhood ruined 😱 I would classify the entire film as amusing. Never sharp enough to get a laugh, but always filled with energy. Bridges is aces as a Midwestern himbo who arrives in…

ZacharyBinx

Jeff Bridges is my spirit animal and so he literally could sell me the Brooklyn Bridges if he was inclined and so thus therefor I'm already on board with this particular opus WELL before its opening credits announce that ANDY FUCKING GRIFFITH is a featured player! What the…

Joe Dutch Schraufnagel

Good cast with some fine performances, lighthearted and offbeat some really funny jokes here and there, not quite as good as I had hoped going in, but solid.

Barry Daulton

Amiable New Hollywood comedy about old Hollywood, with Jeff Bridges neatly portraying a naïve yokel from Iowa. Blythe Danner is effervescent as his love interest, while Andy Griffiths scores points as that one friend with the persistently shitty advice. Alan Arkin is also…

James R. De Roxtra

I came across this film tonight while scrolling through TCM. I’d never heard of it, but the plot description, “An aspiring Western novelist in ’30s Hollywood becomes a low-budget cowboy star,” caught my attention. Then I saw that it starred a young Jeff Bridges, and I knew…

similyb

A charming little gem about movie-making with an early star turn by Bridges. It is fascinating to see how he has evolved from these quirky roles in the 70s. He really has made some wise decisions with the projects he has been involved in throughout his career and even his…

MFIsaac