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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

dir. Jake Kasdan

I'm about to use a pseudo-witty critic cliche... wait for it... wait... Walk Hard walks a fine line. Boom. But it's true. For the movie to be successful it was going to have to cleverly mock the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line (which I love) and in turn mock Johnny Cash himself without coming off as a big bully kicking a (literally) dead horse.

Johnny and June Cash's turbulent love story is practically sacred; Walk Hard (cowritten by Judd Apatow), meanwhile, is a goofy movie with dick jokes being delivered by cast members of SNL and The Office. The plot follows the rise, fall, and resurgence of an American music legend, Dewey Cox, who cheats ...

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