Crazy Heart (2009)

This is perhaps the last movie my brother really praised too me. Jeff Bridges finally won his Oscar for this character study of a drunken, has-been country-western singer and his long road to redemption. The movie doesn't take you any place you haven't already been, its really just a slight variation on the arc story of most musical bio-pics, but it takes you there gracefully. I know not everybody thinks she's beautiful, but Maggie Gyllenhaal is really attractive in this.