Country Strong is a 2010 American drama film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund, and Leighton Meester.

The film, about an emotionally unstable country music star who attempts to revive her faltering career, was directed and written by American filmmaker Shana Feste.

It premiered in Nashville, Tennessee on November 8, 2010, and had a limited release in the United States on December 22, 2010, before expanding wide on January 7, 2011.

Beau Hutton sings with Kelly Canter, a recovering alcoholic country music singer going through rehab.

Kelly is checked out of rehab a month early by James, who wants her to go on a three-city tour to restore her image.

James has already planned to see Chiles Stanton, a beauty queen with potential to become a rising singer, perform that night in hopes that she will be Kelly's opener instead.

At that concert, she was five months pregnant and was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.19 when she was in the hospital for the injuries related to the fall.

Beau ends his relationship with Kelly and begins to spend more time with Chiles, whose fame has been increasing as the tour progresses.

She leaves a letter to Beau, echoing his earlier words that "Love and fame can't live in the same place."

With a budget of $15 million, pre-production work on the project, then titled Love Don't Let Me Down, began in November 2009.

[9] In interviews, Feste has said that American pop singer Britney Spears inspired Paltrow's character in the film.

[4] On December 14, 2010, the official screening took place at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California.

The website's critical consensus reads: "The cast gives it their all, and Paltrow handles her songs with aplomb, but Country Strong's cliched, disjointed screenplay hits too many bum notes.

[17] It was released nationwide alongside Season of the Witch on January 7, 2011, and was projected to gross $5–6 million from 1,424 theaters in its opening weekend.

"Coming Home" by Bob DiPiero, Tom Douglas, Lindsey, Troy Verges and performed by Gwyneth Paltrow was nominated for Best Original Song at the 68th Golden Globe Awards and 83rd Academy Awards, but it lost both to "You Haven't Seen The Last of Me" from Burlesque and "We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3, respectively.