Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a Golden Globe-nominated comedy film starring John C. Reilly in the title role and directed by Jake Kasdan. Judd Apatow, who directed The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, co-wrote and produced the film.
Dewey Cox parodies several music legends, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Brian Wilson, but mainly Johnny Cash, in a plot that parallels Walk the Line. The MPAA gave the film an R rating for sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language .
The film was released in the United States and Canada on December 21, 2007.
The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly), whose songs would change a nation. On his rock n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, 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 (Jenna Fischer). Written by Sony Pictures
