What was walk hard based on

Interview Photos Top cast Edit. Reilly Dewey Cox as Dewey Cox. David Krumholtz Schwartzberg as Schwartzberg. Tim Meadows Sam as Sam. Chip Hormess Nate as Nate. Raymond J. Barry Pa Cox as Pa Cox. Jake Kasdan. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox, whose songs would change a nation.

On his rock 'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with women, marries three times, has 36 kids, 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. Life made him tough. Love made him strong. Music made him hard. Rated R for sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language.

Did you know Edit. Goofs During his college show for "little man", contemporary cars are visible in the background. Quotes [after Dewey accidentally barges in a room filled with smoke and groupies] Sam : [coughs] Get outta here, Dewey! Soundtracks Prelude in G Minor, Op. User reviews Review. Top review. Dewey Cox: Riley makes him real. Some of the final recording involved John C. Reilly riffing as well. If you put your spirit into it and you really mean it, you really can try to connect with an audience.

I'm really grateful that I got to do that, mostly. In , Bern was informed that Dylan had supposedly seen the piece in and wrote a letter to the magazine calling him a "scurrilous little wretch with a hard-on for comedy.

I had to practice playing the drums. They had a set of electric drums set up in a room on the studio at the offices and I would go in on my days off and practice. The whole collection of interviews, with people from various departments, executive producer Judd Apatow, and a number of other cast members Raymond J. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! The crazy thing is that the satire — which, for the record, is B.

The Johnny Cash biopic opens with the Man in Black backstage before his famous Folsom Prison show, staring at a sawblade just a … little … too … long as the lock-up crowd impatiently stomps for the concert to start.

The blade, we learn, reminds him of a childhood tragedy that we then see in flashback. Reilly , made up to resemble a late-career Conway Twitty backstage before an awards-show comeback performance. Much of its comic energy is invested in pointing out risible, tried-and-true tropes. Reilly, surrounded by actual kids who treat him as one of their own. For all their faults, Ray and Walk the Line are each invested in summoning up the presence of their subject, in letting us spend time with Ray Charles or Johnny Cash as people.

If anything, he makes more psychological sense than most movie musician heroes. Previously: W.