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Article: Reilly shines as fictional rock star.(Entertainment)
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- Cape Times (South Africa)
- Article date:
- March 28, 2008
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WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY. Directed by Jake Kasdan, with John C Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Tim Meadows and Kristen Wiig.
Review: KENNETH TURAN
IT'S not easy to live the life that led to being immortalised in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Dewey Cox - singer, songwriter, legend - would be the first to tell you that, if he were for real. He's not, of course, but there are moments during this smart and genial satire when you could swear he was.
That's because this gleefully jaundiced skewering of American popular music in general and biopics like Walk the Line and Ray in particular knows that humour comes from both loving your ...