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* StarDerailingRole: The successive failures of this movie, ''Film/MonteCarlo'' and ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'' ended any chance Leighton Meester had at becoming a bankable Hollywood star. [[{{Irony}} She has found a little more success as a singer]].
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* StarDerailingRole: The successive failures of this movie, ''Film/MonteCarlo'' ''Film/MonteCarlo2011'' and ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'' ended any chance Leighton Meester had at becoming a bankable Hollywood star. [[{{Irony}} She has found a little more success as a singer]].
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* DoingItForTheArt: Both Garret Hedlund and Gwyneth Paltrow learned to play guitar and trained their voices for the film, so as not to rely on doubles.
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* MethodActing: Garrett Hedlund actually stayed in Tim [=McGraw=]'s ranch and had guitar rehearsals there so he could fully immerse himself in the mindset of a country singer.
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* MethodActing: MethodActing:
** Garrett Hedlund actually stayed in Tim [=McGraw=]'s ranch and had guitar rehearsals there so he could fully immerse himself in the mindset of a countrysinger.singer.
** Both Garret Hedlund and Gwyneth Paltrow learned to play guitar and trained their voices for the film, so as not to rely on doubles.
** Garrett Hedlund actually stayed in Tim [=McGraw=]'s ranch and had guitar rehearsals there so he could fully immerse himself in the mindset of a country
** Both Garret Hedlund and Gwyneth Paltrow learned to play guitar and trained their voices for the film, so as not to rely on doubles.
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* OscarBait: Troubled country singer? Check. Mentally ill female? Check. RedemptionQuest storyline? Check. It didn't take, and only got a Best Original Song nomination.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The two female singers are {{Expy}}s of Music/BritneySpears - who was attempting to make a comeback after her very public mental health and substance abuse problems - and Music/TaylorSwift - who was still known as a country pop singer at the time. Chiles being able to hide her past, such as [[spoiler: her parents being in prison]], shows the movie to be made before the internet was as widespread as it is today. Not to mention a lack of social media or smartphones, which would certainly have been in the singers' lives were the movie made even five years later.
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* BreakawayPopHit: Leighton Meester's "Summer Girl" is better remembered than the film.
* DoingItForTheArt: Both Garret Hedlund and Gwyneth Paltrow learned to play guitar and trained their voices for the film, so as not to rely on doubles.
* DoingItForTheArt: Both Garret Hedlund and Gwyneth Paltrow learned to play guitar and trained their voices for the film, so as not to rely on doubles.
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* MethodActing: Garrett Hedlund actually stayed in Tim [=McGraw=]'s ranch and had guitar rehearsals there so he could fully immerse himself in the mindset of a country singer.
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* ShownTheirWork: Garret Hedlund and Gwyneth Paltrow learned how to play guitar and underwent extensive vocal training to believably play country singers.
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* ShownTheirWork: Garret Hedlund and Gwyneth Paltrow learned how to play guitar and underwent extensive vocal training to believably play RealitySubtext:
** Beau was based off countrysingers.singer Hayes Carll, who ended up writing most of his songs in the film.
** Leighton Meester was also in the process of releasing her first album, giving her a few parallels to Chiles.
** Beau was based off country
** Leighton Meester was also in the process of releasing her first album, giving her a few parallels to Chiles.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The two female singers are {{Expy}}s of Music/BritneySpears - who was attempting to make a comeback after her very public mental health and substance abuse problems - and Music/TaylorSwift - who was still known as a country pop singer at the time. Chiles being able to hide her past, such as [[spoiler: her parents being in prison]], shows the movie to be made before the internet was as widespread as it is today. Not to mention a lack of social media or smartphones, which would certainly have been in the singers' lives were the movie made even five years later.
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* MissingTrailerScene: A music video for the song "Summer Girl" contains a few shots of Chiles performing in the bar that don't appear in the final film. She's shown only performing the end of the song in the actual scene.
* OscarBait: Troubled country singer? Check. Mentally ill female? Check. RedemptionQuest storyline? Check. It didn't take, and only got a Best Original Song nomination.
* OscarBait: Troubled country singer? Check. Mentally ill female? Check. RedemptionQuest storyline? Check. It didn't take, and only got a Best Original Song nomination.
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* ActorAllusion: Chiles's parents seemed to be based on Leighton Meester's parents.
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* ActorAllusion: Chiles's ActorSharedBackground: Chiles parents seemed are revealed [[spoiler: to be based on Leighton Meester's parents.have served time in prison]]. Creator/LeightonMeester was in the same situation.
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* NotScreenedForCritics: despite being intended as OscarBait, Sony chose not to screen the film for critics (possibly out of embarrassment). Most critical reviews were very negative.
* StarDerailingRole: The successive failures of this movie, ''Film/MonteCarlo'' and ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'' ended any chance Leighton Meester had at becoming a bankable Hollywood star.
* StarDerailingRole: The successive failures of this movie, ''Film/MonteCarlo'' and ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'' ended any chance Leighton Meester had at becoming a bankable Hollywood star.
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* NotScreenedForCritics: despite being intended as OscarBait, Sony chose IronyAsSheIsCast: Tim [=McGraw=], a successful country singer, is the only one of the four leads who does not to screen sing in the film for critics (possibly out of embarrassment). Most critical reviews were very negative.
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* ShownTheirWork: Garret Hedlund and Gwyneth Paltrow learned how to play guitar and underwent extensive vocal training to believably play country singers.
* StarDerailingRole: The successive failures of this movie, ''Film/MonteCarlo'' and ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'' ended any chance Leighton Meester had at becoming a bankable Hollywood star. [[{{Irony}} She has found a little more success as a singer]].
* ShownTheirWork: Garret Hedlund and Gwyneth Paltrow learned how to play guitar and underwent extensive vocal training to believably play country singers.
* StarDerailingRole: The successive failures of this movie, ''Film/MonteCarlo'' and ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'' ended any chance Leighton Meester had at becoming a bankable Hollywood star. [[{{Irony}} She has found a little more success as a singer]].
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* StarDeraingRole: The successive failures of this movie, ''Film/MonteCarlo'' and ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'' ended any chance Leighton Meester had at becoming a bankable Hollywood star.
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* StarDeraingRole: StarDerailingRole: The successive failures of this movie, ''Film/MonteCarlo'' and ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'' ended any chance Leighton Meester had at becoming a bankable Hollywood star.
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* DuelingMovies: With ''CrazyHeart''.
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* DuelingMovies: With ''CrazyHeart''.''Literature/CrazyHeart''.
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* NotScreenedForCritics: despite being intended as OscarBait, Sony chose not to screen the film for critics (possibly out of embarrassment). Most critical reviews were very negative.
** Significantly, this came from Sony's low-rent Screen Gems division, which usually gives the world movies like the remake of ''TheStepfather'', ''TheRoommate,'' ''{{Burlesque}}'' and movies that ''don't'' have ''GossipGirl'' cast members.
** Significantly, this came from Sony's low-rent Screen Gems division, which usually gives the world movies like the remake of ''TheStepfather'', ''TheRoommate,'' ''{{Burlesque}}'' and movies that ''don't'' have ''GossipGirl'' cast members.
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* NotScreenedForCritics: despite being intended as OscarBait, Sony chose not to screen the film for critics (possibly out of embarrassment). Most critical reviews were very negative.
** Significantly, this came from Sony's low-rent Screen Gems division, which usually gives the world movies like the remake of ''TheStepfather'', ''TheRoommate,'' ''{{Burlesque}}'' and movies that ''don't'' have ''GossipGirl'' cast members.negative.
** Significantly, this came from Sony's low-rent Screen Gems division, which usually gives the world movies like the remake of ''TheStepfather'', ''TheRoommate,'' ''{{Burlesque}}'' and movies that ''don't'' have ''GossipGirl'' cast members.
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* NotScreenedForCritics: despite being intended as OscarBait, Sony chose not to screen the film for critics (possibly out of embarrassment). Most critical reviews were very negative.
** Significantly, this came from Sony's low-rent Screen Gems division, which usually gives the world movies like the remake of ''TheStepfather'', ''TheRoommate,'' ''{{Burlesque}}'' and movies that ''don't'' have ''GossipGirl'' cast members.
** Significantly, this came from Sony's low-rent Screen Gems division, which usually gives the world movies like the remake of ''TheStepfather'', ''TheRoommate,'' ''{{Burlesque}}'' and movies that ''don't'' have ''GossipGirl'' cast members.
