Crazy Heart

Inciting Event: Bad agrees to let Jane interview him

First Plot Point: Bad falls in love with Jane.

First Pinch Point: Opens for Tommy amidst his display of success and popularity.

Midpoint: Bad crashes his car.

Second Pinch Point: Bad’s estranged son refuses to meet with him.

Third Plot Point: Bad loses Jane’s son after taking him to a bar.

Climax: Jane refuses to get back together with Bad even after he goes sober.

Climactic Moment: Tommy sings the megahit Bad wrote for him.

Resolution: Sixteen months later, Bad meets Janie and they reconcile even though she’s going to marry someone else.

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