I do not understand all the accolades and hype for this movie. The writing and directing was anemic and awkward. When you have to drop a bunch of 4 letter words all over the place,it just demonstrates that you do not have anything intelligent to convey. Over the top distracting. I think Bradley and Stefani sang well together. They should have sang the entire way through it. His gravelly speaking voice was unnecessary in my opinion.. He was trying too hard to sound like Sam Elliot. It failed because half the time it was so muffled and garbled you could not understand him. The dialogue is quite awful and I felt no connection with anyone. That is rare for me. My husband and I were fast forwarding. I do not want to leave a bad review but to me, this had the opportunity to deliver but it failed. Bradley can sing well and Stefani gave a fine performance. It was no fault of hers that this was a miss for me. Awful directing and writing in my opinion, cringe-worthy. It is too bad because Mr.Cooper is a decent actor typically.