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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

[2007, Movie]

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story: Review

Walk Hard The Dewey Cox Story, John C. Reilly

Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan's uneven parody strikes out as often as it nails the cliches of Hollywood music biopics, but veteran character actor John C. Reilly is electrifying as Dewey, who weathers three decades of musical trends and several lifetimes worth of Behind the Music debauchery. Born into Alabama poverty, little Dewey grows up in the shadow of tragedy: At the age of 8, he accidentally bisected his brother with a machete and permanently alienated his father (Ray... read more

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story: TV Guide News

Barbara's Oscar Guests, Indy 4 Trailer and More | Today's News: Our Take | 2/11/2008
Barbara Walters' 27th annual pre-Oscars special, airing Feb. 24 at 7 pm/ET, will find the queen of the fuzzy lens gabbing with Ellen Page (Juno), Harrison Ford, Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty) and Miley Cyrus (every inch of your daughter's bedroom walls).... Speaking of Calista's squeeze, Good Morning America will premiere the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on Thursday's show, during the 8 o'clock hour.... Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story arrives on DVD April 8. read more
DVD Tuesday: Walk Hard, Spinal Tap, Mighty Wind | Ask FlickChick | 1/1/2008
DVD Tuesday: Walk Hard, This Is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind — I got the music in me! It's the first day of 2008 and I'm more than a little surprised that the musical biopic parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is tanking so dismally. Make no mistake, I think it's a flawed comedy, but when it's cooking it's flat-out brilliant. And it got me to thinking about one of my favorite music-business send-ups of all time: A Mighty Wind (2003).I don't inherently love parody, especially not the lazy, bone-stupid kind of parody epitomized by the sorry likes of the Scary Movie franchise. But A Mighty Wind is a worthy successor to the granddaddy of all music-parody pictures, the utterly brilliant This Is Spinal Tap (1984). Which should come as no surprise, given that A Mighty Wind's writer, director and multitalented performer Christopher Guest's résumé goes back to, yes, Spinal Tap. A Mighty Wind chronicles the staging of a memorial concert in honor of pioneering folk-music... read more
Box Office Finds Treasure at No. 1; Dewey Cox Blocked | Today's News: Our Take | 12/23/2007
National Treasure: Book of Secrets, starring Nicolas Cage, topped the weekend box office with $45.5 million, besting the original's $35.1 mil opening. Last week's champ, I Am Legend, came in second with $34.2 mil.Rounding out the top five were Alvin and the Chipmunks ($29 mil), Charlie Wilson's War ($9.6 mil in its debut) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (scraping together $9.35 mil across just 1,249 screens).Among other new releases, P.S. I Love You came in at No. 6 with $6.5 million, while the widely praised Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story disappointed with an eighth-place finish, taking in just $4.1 mil.Update: Jessica Simpson's Blonde Ambition reportedly grossed $384 — no typo there — on its opening day. See film critic Ken Fox's A Beautiful Fraud blog for that story. read more

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