Transcript: 'Walk Hard' Sends Up Bio-Pics

ANDREA SEABROOK
NPR Weekend All Things Considered
12-23-2007
'Walk Hard' Sends Up Bio-Pics

Host: ANDREA SEABROOK
Time 19:00-20:00 PM


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So the movie "This is Final Tap" mocked heavy metal, "A Mighty Wind" took on the folkies. And now the musician biopic itself is getting the parody treatment, "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" opened this weekend.

NPR's Bob Mondello has this review.

BOB MONDELLO: If you've seen "Walk the Line" or "Ray" or "The Buddy Holly Story," you know the drill. A young man has a miserable childhood followed by marriage too young, a hard-scrabble life that can't help finding its way into his songs.

(Soundbite of movie "Walk Hard")

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