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FILM DETAILS

Certificate 15

Cast John C Reilly Jack White Jenna Fischer Justin Long Jason Schwartzman Jack Black Paul Rudd John Michael Higgins Kristen Wiig Tim Meadows

Directors Jake Kasdan

Screenwriters Judd Apatow Jake Kasdan

Running Time 96 minutes

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (15)

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Plot
Before being honoured at a rock’n’roll awards show, legendary rocker Dewey Cox (Reilly) reflects on his troubled past. As a child, he accidentally cut his talented brother in half with a machete, but his promise to be excellent in life for the both of them has proven hard to keep….

Verdict
John C Reilly just about holds together a funny but patchy comedy that puts a ten-megaton bomb under the cliched rock biopic – and never detonates it.


Reviewer: Damon Wise

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