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, director of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, co-wrote and produced the film.
Dewey Cox personifies a number of prolific figures in rock history throughout the course of the movie—including
Bob Dylan,
Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, David Bowie, Brian Wilson, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis and Donovan—but mainly
Johnny Cash. The plot is a close parallel of 2005's Walk the Line; Walk Hard is also a parody of the biopic genre as a whole.
The film was released in the United States and Canada on December 21, 2007.
