Songwriter is a great time with some great songs. It's ridiculous country music fun for most of its running time, and Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson are a delight. Lesley Ann Warren is in this too, and she gives a truly fantastic performance. She's funny and sensitive and just delightful, although I can't say I care much for her singing. I liked the script too! This is an unjustly ignored little comic gem. It's sentimental in all the right places and even occasionally serious, but it doesn't take itself too seriously. I had a great time.
I watched this on Amazon Prime and it was the last film that I hadn't seen from the 1984 Oscar cycle. (This was the year Amadeus won Best Picture. The year of Beverly Hills Cop and War-Time Romance and Sesión Continua and El Norte and Footloose.)
