Who is dewey cox the movie about

Tim Meadows Sam as Sam. Chip Hormess Nate as Nate. Raymond J. Barry Pa Cox as Pa Cox. Jake Kasdan. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox, whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with women, marries three times, has 36 kids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to - and then kicks - every drug known to man; but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman - longtime backup singer Darlene.

Life made him tough. Love made him strong. Music made him hard. Rated R for sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language. Did you know Edit. Goofs During his college show for "little man", contemporary cars are visible in the background. Quotes [after Dewey accidentally barges in a room filled with smoke and groupies] Sam : [coughs] Get outta here, Dewey! Soundtracks Prelude in G Minor, Op.

User reviews Review. Top review. I thought this was a brilliant satire of the biopic genre. It was obviously borrowed from Walk the Line, but there was plenty of other stuff thrown in as well. It was a truly hilarious movie, including the scenes where the band members convince him to try the drugs, a scene with the Beatles, the variety show stuff and interviews, all the scenes with the title character smashing the sinks, and the Walk the Line spoofs. The crazy thing is that the satire — which, for the record, is B.

The Johnny Cash biopic opens with the Man in Black backstage before his famous Folsom Prison show, staring at a sawblade just a … little … too … long as the lock-up crowd impatiently stomps for the concert to start. The blade, we learn, reminds him of a childhood tragedy that we then see in flashback. Reilly , made up to resemble a late-career Conway Twitty backstage before an awards-show comeback performance.

Much of its comic energy is invested in pointing out risible, tried-and-true tropes. Reilly, surrounded by actual kids who treat him as one of their own. For all their faults, Ray and Walk the Line are each invested in summoning up the presence of their subject, in letting us spend time with Ray Charles or Johnny Cash as people.

If anything, he makes more psychological sense than most movie musician heroes. Previously: W. Reilly , they built seven hotel rooms and three music studios, with music director Michael Andrews overseeing the creation of songs within six months. Related John C. Just say the dirtiest stuff but like super deadpan and earnest and matter of fact.

So I just started spewing the dirtiest dirty talk I could think of. And all leads to doom, because he keeps finding Sam behind another door. The movie, directed by Jake Kasdan , was co-written by Kasdan and the productive Judd Apatow " Superbad " , and they do an interesting thing: Instead of sending everything over the top at high energy, like "Top Secret! Reilly is required to walk a tightrope; is he suffering or kidding suffering, or kidding suffering about suffering?

That we're not sure adds to the appeal. Note: I must mention one peculiar element in the film. As Reilly is having a telephone conversation, a male penis is framed in the upper right corner of the screen. No explanation about why, or who it belongs to or what happens to it. Just a penis. I think this just about establishes a standard for gratuitous nudity. Speculate as I will, I cannot imagine why it's in the film.

Did the cinematographer look through his viewfinder and say, "Jake, the upper right corner could use a penis"? Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.