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Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Release Date: Dec 21, 2007
Running Time: 96 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
America loves Dewey Cox! But behind the music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a musician whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own '70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to--and then kicks--every drug known to man. But despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman--longtime backup singer Darlene.
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Dewey Cox
Darlene Madison
Edith Cox
Sam
Pa Cox
Schwartzberg
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Dewdrop
Theo
Bobby Shad
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reviews
PETER TRAVERS -
December 13, 2007
The tricky thing about parody movies is that the jokes get old fast and they're hit-and-miss. Walk Hard, a spoof of every musical biopic from Ray to Walk the Line, is guilty on both counts. How lucky that when the jokes do hit, they kick major ass. It helps that producer-writer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) and writer-director Jake Kasdan (The TV Set) have a similar sense of the silly and the good taste to cast the insanely funny John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox, an Alabama boy who covers every musical…
It's a little disappointing to see Apatow & Associates produce a movie that, besides the rating and genre, is somewhat of a fundamental about-face. But on the spoof scale, Walk Hard is still a considerable success. Story While clearly a minority, some people still need the following clarification: Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly) is not, and never was, a real person, and Walk Hard is not his biopic. Going in with the knowledge that this is, in fact, a spoof music biopic (primarily taking aim at Walk… |
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