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This Depression-era Odyssey, directed by the Coen Brothers, also brought old-timey music came back into fashion. T. Bone Burnetts soundtrack, featuring Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch, became a best-seller.

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The setups admittedly corny, but the movies worth watching for Straits first and (so far) only foray into film acting.

Pure Country was a critical and box-office failure proving that cashing in on the 90s country boom wasnt so easy.

Said Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times: Pure Country tells a laborious but likable story, not amazingly original.

Strait is not an actor in the class of Mellencamp or Nelson, but he is genuine and has a winning smile and holds his own in a screenplay that makes few demands.

In the film, John Travolta plays Bud, a small-town Texan drawn to the dim lights and thick smoke of Houstons honky-tonks.

On a stage of sawdust floors, he looks for love, blunders into heartbreak and mounts a mechanical bull.

Whether youre an admirer of 80s kitsch or a sucker for redneck romance, Urban Cowboy is required country music viewing.

Gwyneth Paltrow plays a hot mess of a country singer trying to pull herself out of a deadly downward spiral.

After a stint in rehab, she tries to put her scandals behind her and return to the spotlight.

But can she keep away from the bottle Or the pills Or the razor blade Tim McGraw co-stars as the singers harried husband, and Paltrow does a fine job singing on the tunes (several of which were written by the redoubtable Hayes Carll).

Coming Home was nominated for Best Song at the 2011 Academy Awards.

Jessica Lange delivers a phenomenal performance as country legend Patsy Cline.

Sweet Dreams follows Clines rise to fame and tragic, too-early death at age 30 in a plane crash.

Ed Harris is remarkable as Patsys Mr.

Wrong. Lange doesnt sing in the picture, but the strength of her acting overcame any quibbles about authenticityearning her an Oscar nod in 1986 for Best Actress.

When it hit theaters in 2005, this Johnny Cash biopic brought renewed attention to the Man in Black.

If the human drama is a bit Hollywood, the stellar musical performances are hardly canned.

Sure, you can think of this is a biopic, but Walk the Line is really more successful as a concert film.

Summer In The Country Cracker Played By

In Songwriter, Willie Nelson plays Doc Jenkins, a talent-rich, cash-poor songwriter who manages the career of his pal Black Buck, played by Kris Kristofferson and a hot young firecracker played by Lesley Ann Warren.

The buddy comedy, directed by Robert Altman protege Alan Rudolph, was based in part on Nelsons experiences with the dark side of the record industry.

James Wolcott called in a litterbug comedy, eating up the white line in the middle of the road.

This Depression-era Odyssey, directed by the Coen Brothers, also brought old-timey music came back into fashion.

T. Bone Burnetts soundtrack, featuring Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch, became a best-seller.

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