Kelly canter story

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, , and had a limited release in the United States on December 22, , before expanding wide on January 7, This is the second film in which McGraw and Hedlund have worked together, the first being Friday Night Lights in Beau Hutton sings with Kelly Canter, a recovering alcoholic country music singer going through rehab.

He is clearly smitten by her, and it is later revealed that the two have been having an affair, even though Kelly is married to James. 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. She agrees on the condition that Beau becomes her opening act. 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.

On the night of Chiles' performance, Beau dismisses Chiles as a "Country Barbie" and does not want her on the tour.

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Chiles' performance nearly falls apart as she gets stage fright and can not sing; however, Beau steps in and begins to sing " Friends in Low Places ". The two sing the song together, and it gives Chiles the courage to continue on her own. James is impressed by Beau's performance and offers the opening act to both of them. He suggests that Beau and Chiles could make quite the duo, but Beau disagrees.

Nevertheless, Beau agrees to go on the tour because he cares about Kelly. The first show is a disaster: before going on, Kelly receives an anonymous package containing a bloody baby doll with a note reading "Baby Killer," referring to the baby Kelly miscarried when she fell off the stage in Dallas during her last concert before she went into rehab.

At that concert, she was five months pregnant and was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0. Kelly falls apart, starts drinking, and almost refuses to go on.