'Walk Hard' Cast and Crew Make Beautiful Music
Melodramatic musician biopics — and the Oscar-hungry people who make them — get skewered in a movie that aspires to be both gut-busting and toe-tapping.
By Eric Alt
Judging by recent years' film releases, all an actor has to do is find a music legend he or she remotely resembles, sign up for a few singing lessons, and clear some space on the mantle for an Oscar. With such blatant accolade-whoring going on, it was only a matter of time before someone took a shot at the pattern. Superstar comedy producer Judd Apatow and director Jake Kasdan are those someones.
In Walk Hard, John C. Reilly plays Dewey Cox, a musical legend whose life story not only covers an improbable number of decades, but whose personal demons, career roadblocks, and emotional dramas are more than a little familiar to anyone who's ever watched a "Behind the Music."
The film's stars and creators pressed pause on their road tour to talk exclusively to PREMIERE.
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