No one else in the audience when I watched this laughed out loud at the opening scene except me. Following the opening credits Bad Blake pulls his truck into a bowling alley parking lot to prepare for a gig. Especially since I just recently watched Jeff Bridges' iconic performa...( read more)nce in The Big Lebowski, I thought this was a excellent start to the movie. With T-Bone Burnett's touch the music is great as expected. Bad's romance with Gyllenhaal's character Jean is nice, but it is her son Buddy and the effect the boy has on turning Bad's life around that is the most special part of this story.

















































