Walk the Line Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: James Mangold
Genres: Drama
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James_Mangold's Walk the Line 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). The film is structured as an extended flashback opening with Cash readying to take the stage at his historic Folsom Prison Concert. The film touches on his childhood, relating a horrific early incident from his life and establishing the troubled relationship he would have with his father (Robert_Patrick). Cash joins the military and leaves home. During his time in the armed services he begins writing songs and romances a hometown girl (Ginnifer_Goodwin). After the end of his duty he settles down and attempts to begin a music career, but his wife has trouble adjusting to his dreams. Cash auditions for Sam_Phillips (Dallas_Roberts), signs to Sun Records, and soon finds himself on tour with a roster of young soon-to-be legends that includes Elvis_Presley (Tyler_Hilton) and Jerry_Lee_Lewis (Waylon_Malloy_Payne). On this tour he meets June_Carter, the daughter of the famous Carter family, and they take a liking to each other, although she refuses any serious advances from him. Cash gains world-wide fame thanks in part to the inspiration he gets from June, but eventually his marriage crumbles and he develops a serious drug addiction. The film is based on Cash's autobiographies. Phoenix and Witherspoon performed all of their own singing in the movie, just as Sissy_Spacek and Beverly D'Angelo did in Coal_Miner's_Daughter a quarter-century before. Perry Seibert, Rovi
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