Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

12/21/20071h 36m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Life made him tough. Love made him strong. Music made him hard. ~

Overview:

Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.

Director:

Jake Kasdan

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$35,000,000.00

Revenue:

$18,317,151.00

Key words:

rock 'n' roll
hip-hop
music record
pop star
pop
rapper
music instrument
blues
record producer
wedding
extramarital affair
aftercreditsstinger

Cast

John C. Reilly

~ as ~

Dewey Cox

Jenna Fischer

~ as ~

Darlene Madison

Raymond J. Barry

~ as ~

Pa Cox

Kristen Wiig

~ as ~

Edith

Tim Meadows

~ as ~

Sam

Harold Ramis

~ as ~

L'Chaim

Margo Martindale

~ as ~

Ma Cox

Chris Parnell

~ as ~

Theo

Matt Besser

~ as ~

Dave

Nat Faxon

~ as ~

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Reviews (1)

Kamurai
Written 5 year(s) ago
6
Decent watch at best, won't watch again, but can recommend.

I only recommend this as I think enough people like J.C. Reilly, and SNL style skits. This movie is essentially a long series of SNL sketches sewn together.

I'm not a fan of this style of writing because it doesn't seem to matter what order you put some of the bits in, it's just stopping the story to tell a joke or two, moving onto another joke or two, etc., until they decide to go back to the part of the movie that progresses the story.

Perhaps, watching a movie like this critically is counter intuitive, but even if I were to turn my brain off and enjoy it, I'm not a fan of drug humor, Dewey Cox is a jerk, and the music focused comedy isn't that good to me, despite the music actually being enjoyable itself. "Let's Duet" was really good though.

There something to like in here, and I can see it: it's just not enough to get me to come back when there are so many options out there.