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Film · 2005 · Biographical drama
Walk the Line
Directed by James Mangold
2005
★ 5.3 editorial score
Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon sang everything themselves after months of training: Johnny Cash's early years, filmed with the music treated as the argument rather than the soundtrack.
“Director and co-writer James Mangold tells a seductive story packed with loving period detail of Cash's grim boyhood picking cotton in Depression-era Arkansas, his excruciating guilt at the death of a brother, unhappy military career, too-early marriage and children, all before that deep groan of a singing voice found ecstatic expression as that of the "Man in Black".”
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