movie poster for WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY

Flicks ID

15021

Cert

15

Running time

92 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY (2007)

JAKE KASDAN

Plot

The legend that is Dewey Cox, a rock and roll god whose name is uttered in the same breath as Buddy Holly and Johnny Cash, a man who embraced hedonism more than most of his peers, but at heart was simple and kind. Idolised for his music and nearly destroyed by the many temptations such adulation brought, this is the myth, a subtle, beautifully performed, lushly visualised, cleverly scripted lampoon of every poe-faced, rose-tinted Oscar hungry biopic that's graced our screens over the last couple of decades. If there's one criticism it's simply that it's too darn well done.