Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

August 6: Preceded by a live musical performance by Jake Albi starting at 5:30pm in Take 3 Wine Bar & Café. More information here.

A hilarious and cutting satire of the ever-ubiquitous musician biopic, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story follows legendary rocker Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly) on a long and winding road to music stardom. As Dewey perseveres through childhood tragedy, changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known, and bouts of uncontrollable rage, he finds his voice and writes the music that transformed a dimwitted country boy into the greatest American rock star who never lived.

Paired Films Discount: Purchase a ticket for Walk the Line alongside Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story in the same order to receive a discount: get two tickets for $20 total for members; $25 total for nonmembers.

"This gleeful skewering of American popular music works because of the talents of director Jake Kasdan and a cast led by John C. Reilly."
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles TImes
"Walk Hard isn't merciless (except for maybe one wicked sequence with the Beatles), and that's because it so loves what it's sending up: the pleasure, ego, and sheer exhaustion of what happens behind the music."
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

This film is part of the Sounds of Summer series.



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