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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 American musical comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan, and written by Kasdan and co-producer Judd Apatow. It stars John C. Reilly, Kristen Wiig, Tim Meadows and Jenna Fischer. A parody of the biopic genre, Walk Hard is the story of a fictional early rock and roll star played by Reilly.
The cast and crew recorded 40 original songs; [4] 33 are featured in the movie. [5] Singer-songwriter Dan Bern and Mike Viola (of the Candy Butchers) wrote most of the film's songs, including "There's a Change A' Happenin'", "The Mulatto Song" and "Hole in My Pants".
The Wackness (2008) – cannabis, cocaine, methylphenidate and anti-depressants; Waiting... (2005) – cannabis and inhalants; Wall Street (1987) – cocaine, mushrooms mentioned; Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) – cannabis, cocaine, Quaaludes, PCP, amphetamine, pills ("uppers and downers"), LSD and Viagra; Walk the Line (2005 ...
(He got the last laugh as Walk the Line grossed approximately $186.7 at the worldwide box office on a $28 million budget, while Walk Hard only grossed $18 million, falling far below its $35 ...
The midnight movie scene in theaters of the 1970s revived the hectoring anti-drug propaganda film Reefer Madness (1936) as an ironic counterculture comedy. The broad popularity of Reefer Madness led to a new audience for extreme anti-drug films bordering on self-parody, including Assassin of Youth (1937), Marihuana (1936), and She Shoulda Said No! a.k.a.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, an uproariously entertaining comedy disguised as a music biopic, is a full-on parody in the same vein as This Is Spinal Tap and Walk Hard.Which is perfectly meta ...
While it is true that the film pays homage to many "biopics", it is most closely related to Walk the Line (Johnny Cash) and Ray (Ray Charles), which came out shortly before Walk Hard was written. While Walk the Line is specifically mentioned, Ray is not. The beginning scenes with the death of the brother and "smell blindness" and the later ...
Kieran Culkin has confessed. The star of “A Real Pain” and “Succession” admitted that he once swapped a prop joint for one spiked with real marijuana when he was cast in a stage production ...