Walk the Line

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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies

Walk the Line

Walk the Line, directed by Academy Award nominee James Mangold (A Complete Unknown), tells the life story of country music legend Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix), focusing primarily on the long courtship he had with June Carter (Reese Witherspoon—in an Academy Award-winning performance). Based on his autobiographies, the film chronicles Cash’s life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm, to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.

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

"If Walk the Line isn't the full story of Johnny Cash, it's at least a crucial corner of it, a way of coaxing a legend down to a human scale, without shrinking that legend away to nothingness."
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
"What Phoenix and Witherspoon accomplish in this movie is transcendent. They act with every bone and inch of flesh and facial plane, and each tone and waver of their voice."
Michael Scragow, Baltimore Sun

This film is part of the Sounds of Summer series.



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