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johnny cash at some point in his life probably: they always say yeehaw but never ask haw yee 😔
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joaquin phoenix 🤝 daniel day-lewis 🤝 philip seymour hoffman being the best actors in modern cinema
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reese witherspoon and joaquin phoenix BECAME june carter and johnny cash. their chemistry is one of the most beautiful things i’ve ever seen and i could watch them sing together forever. honestly – the performances of an absolute lifetime. this completely blew me away. wow
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Johnny Cash is a jackass and an arsehole towards his first wife. But doggone it, Phoenix really nailed it down well, even to Cash’s mannerisms, and Witherspoon was pretty captivating at times. Did you know that Phoenix and Witherspoon performed all of the songs themselves? They also played the auto harp and guitar themselves, too. That’s impressive. Since the story focused heavily on Cash’s rough side, I can see how this will be unlikeable to certain viewers. If you can get past its character flaws and focus on its strong central performance, you’ll find it entertaining. This is a solid music biopic and because of the music genre (country) the appeal and connection will certainly vary from person to person. I love both I Walk the Line and Ring of Fire songs.
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There’s a scene in this where Johnny, revved up out of his mind on pills, excitedly tells his disinterested parents about writing a letter to that folk singer Bob Dylan on an airplane and receiving a response in the mail. Twenty years later, the promise of the Extended Music Cinematic Universe would be fulfilled when the same director depicted the writing of this letter and its response in “A Complete Unknown.”
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While there are a ton of simplifications to the story, this is probably one of the most well-done music biopics (that take the traditional route) that I’ve seen. The performances by Phoenix and Witherspoon are fantastic, and the movie wouldn’t be the same without them.
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As far as musical biopics go this is the peak. For the most part I cannot stand this genre, but the raw story of Johnny Cash makes this great. Phoenix and Weatherspoon are unbelievable in their roles. Hard to say but JP may be the goat at transforming into these troubled intense roles. Even so, he’s somehow outshined by Reese in my opinion. Johnny certainly knew how to be a rockstar that’s for sure, pop a few pills and ruin…
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Also watched this one yesterday and man Johnny cash is so cool. I really liked the performances and how they incorporated the songs throughout the movie. I love Johnny cash and really like how they structured the movie. I still would’ve liked to have heard hurt because to me that’s one of my most favorite songs because you can hear the pain in his voice. But nevertheless was a great movie that I enjoyed
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Having the last name Cash is like the coolest thing ever.
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actually mega dobrej film, videl jsem to doslova kazdou hudebku 7. a 8. trida ale nepamatoval jsem si dej a ted kdyz se na to divam tak to je hodne vporadku film, znamy herci dobre zahrane super vibe
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poor freaking vivian what the hell
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Wow was not expecting to like this as much as I do. Helps that I didn’t know much about Johnny Cash’s life beforehand. Joaquin Phoenix has definitely cemented himself in my top 3 favorite actors and while I haven’t seen many Reese Witherspoon movies, her performance was just as good if not better. 🔥
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FREEZE FRAME ENDING?! Reese Witherspoon is really is great in this, Oscar deserved. The music performance sections of this movie are really great, especially the Folsom one, but they should have let him play the whole song. That scene was electric and I think the best performance by Phoenix the whole movie and they just like fade it out way too early. It was still a fun movie, but if Martin Scorsese made it to might be one of my favorite movies. The Johnny Cash story is a perfect one for Marty to write. Anyway 👍🏻
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Yo antes de verla: 😃 Yo después de verla: 🤠 Joaquín Phoenix interpreta a Cash de una forma espectacular, el hombre que viste de negro simplemente.
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Can’t believe this. Basically the whole thing is beat for beat ripped off from Walk Hard. Even the bathroom sink thing.
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This movie always hits a little too close to home and never fails to make me so emotional. But I suppose that’s why I love it.
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“You can’t help nobody if you can’t tell them the right story.” Another one I watched a bunch in the 00s and I just love it. Joaquin and Reese really transformed into Johnny and June for this and without them this could’ve ended up another empty music biopic. I do love this genre though. Except when we have to watch awkward moments, sometimes fabricated, of the artists coming up with their popular songs. This is a classic, deserving of all its accolades and awards for sure. Love it. 354/500 movies & tv for 2026
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my stream of consciousness upon my rewatch: I’ve loved this movie since I was 15. seen it more times then I can count. the recording studio scene where he sings folsom prison blues remains one of my favorites movie scenes ever. “well I didn’t have it then, bill” is something my mom and I quote to one another to this day. and finally: because you’re mine….I walk the line #johnnycash4everrr
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I love him
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first time watching a biopic where I didn’t know a damn thing before watching. pretty epic. Joaquin Phoenix just has it. It felt like he completely believed he was Johnny Cash while filming. also also also felt like the movie took place on just the same stage and same room decorated slightly differently in each scene. but fuck yea I walk the line
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Now this is a good movie. Certainly certainly one of the better biopics ….. ….. but man ….. ….. Dewey Cox blew this shit to smithereens. It’s absolutely impossible to rewatch without hearing Dewey. So funny.
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When does Johnny fight Maximus?
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Not only a great biopic, but a great romance. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon both operating on Oscar levels here to Bring Johnny and June to life. Can’t believe how good their vocals were. I knew Johnny Cash was flawed but I never knew much more than that. This answered a lot of questions I had about such an influential artist. Amazing
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welp, it’s good and i like Mangold, so i can say that i like it for now. Witherspoon has finally appeared in a place where i appreciate her, and Phoenix always steals the show. yet this film lacks something. i can’t quite figure out what it is. maybe it’s the way the stage performances are shot like a stage performance, but throughout the film i just felt like i was being thrown through the same ringer over and over. i…
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I loved this movie in 2005. It got me into Johnny Cash, so I’ll always have a soft spot for it. Witherspoon elevates the hell out of her scenes both on and off the stage. Phoenix’s singing is pretty good, but the performance overall wears worse now that I’m familiar with more of his work. The movie’s credulousness makes a pretty good case against both the biopic and the autobiography, or at least biopics based on autobiographies. Mangold oversimplifies the…
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before the ongoing biopic slop terror of the 2020s began, there was walk the line, an actual raw retelling of johnny cash’s life story.
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Estou ouvindo muito Johnny Cash e não podia deixar passar a oportunidade de ver esse filme
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Watching after reading his autobiography, and as a lifelong fan of Johnny Cash, I liked it in both a casual viewer and a fan of his work. Despite the differences changed for cinematic effect as pertaining to some events of John’s life, I enjoyed it.
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Found out they were playing this the first night at the cruise around 10 and like an hour and a half in, this fuckass kid opened the door and yelled at us for absolutely NO reason.
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Es una película muy simple, sin grandes giros de guion ni visualmente demasiado increíble, pero aun así creo que es una muy buena película. Joaquin Phoenix y Reese Witherspoon están increíbles y, de ella, me parece la mejor interpretación de su carrera. Por eso mismo ganó el Oscar a Mejor Actriz en 2006. Sobre todo el principio y cómo Johnny Cash empieza a hacerse músico me parece muy bueno, pero creo que cuando empiezan a darle tanto énfasis a la…
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O começo me pegou de jeito 😭
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need reese witherspoon in every movie
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I’d probably kill myself if someone proposed to me in front of all those people
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No sé porque sigo viendo biopics de estos artistas, parece que meter droga y pegar cuerno era un deporte olímpico en eso tiempo. Tuve que ver la película en 2 parte porque e que no soporto esa mielda de infidelida colega. Shout-out to el papá de cash, la Gente cambia. Shout-out To cash también, la gente cambia X2, pero cuelnero ereas y cuelnero serás Shout-out to Joaquín Phoenix que bendita actuación.
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Men will act obsessed with u and basically force u to marry them just to immediately cheat. Anyway amazing movie and I’m obsessed with their cover of it ain’t me, babe
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Love a music biopic. This was very good entertainment for a Saturday night. Joaquin phoenix was his usual good self but Reese Witherspoon was the star of the show for me
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A complete unknown pero con un protagonista con buen desarrollo
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i wish there was more accuracy but i love this movie sm 💕 also johnny bro im so disappointed. STOP CHEATING ON YOUR WIVES
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What is so hard about not cheating 😞
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I’m sorry but I did not like Joaquin as Johnny 😳
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Watched this growing up and my obsession with Johnny Cash remains today
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Best Joaquin Phoenix performance. Joker fans fight me
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When I was but a wee little Ghostie, growing up I must have watched this film hundreds and hundreds of times. Cocaine Blue was my favourite song for a long long time. Watching it again now it’s shocking how little of this movie not involving Reese Witherspoon. She is truly breathtaking as June Carter. Really talking about anything else is doing her a disservice here. The performances are fantastic, especially Jackson & Cocaine Blues. Joaquin Phoenix is alright overall, he doesn’t…
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Joker Cash more like #notmyjohnny
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I love this!!! love biopics so much ❤️
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mida joaquin phoenix ja reese witherspoon teha ei oska? soundtrack on super, näitlemine, kaadrid
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Because you’re mine I walk the line…
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Strasno dobro odradjen biopic sto se nenormalno retko srece. Vizuelno i konceptualno prelep film. Joaquin objasnjava po obicaju. Da li Johnny ima jednaku kolicinu aure kao thcf nakon nastupa pred zatvorenicima to nek zakljuci gledalac. 2021
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as performances aqui de fato tão de outro mundo, parabéns a todos etc, e a cena do show na prisão é muuuuito boa, bizarro pensar que o joaquin não ganhou o oscar com esse papel, e tudo mais… porém, dito isso, pqp, como eu odeio quando o plot/trope é puramente traição, e meu deus do céu, nesse filme se arrastou demaaaaaais, só conseguiu me angustiar >:( eu fui sem saber nada sobre o dito cujo, daí o filme acabou e…
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I always enjoy a biopic but each time I watch one, I get deja vu. They always follow the same formula with some aspect mildly tweaked. The only thing that differentiates them for me is the music but besides that many of them just feel like I’m watching the same movie again just with different actors. Same beats, character dynamics, and the same amount of unrealistic, movie made moments.
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Good movie, didnt seem to get the tempo quite right, but the soundtrack is great (obviously).
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Second watch, but it’s even better. The story is so raw and honest that youre can’t help but feel for everything theyre going through. After having watched two others about famous singers – both of whom got too far in and died cause of it – it’s almost strange to watch one with that doesnt end tragically. Seriously tho, wherever theyre finding these people to act the roles of the singers, it’s the right spot. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon nailed it!
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This felt like a Johnny Cash hit piece. Just made him look like a terrible, annoying person. It was hard for me to buy Joaquin Phoenix as Cash compared to other actors’ portrayals of musicians. Most of the time, all I could see was Phoenix. Props to him though for singing the songs himself, he sounded great.
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I was born a year before this movie came out and its took me 21 years to find out it existed. I was looking for biopics for metal artists when I stumbled onto walk the line. Been a cash fan since call me Kevin would join comedy night servers and sing ring of fire. I never really knew anything about his life but holy shit. I know it was probably very exaggerated but even to have a slight glimpse into…
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my favourite part was when johnny was proposing on stage for the fifth time and it’s clearly supposed to be a very emotionally intense moment but the background musicians just keep plucking the same honky tonk tune. nothing breaks their laser focused concentration on plucking the same three notes in succession over and over.
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made me hate and love Johnny Cash so I say it’s good acting and a great movie
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As far as biopics go, this one hits a lot of the marks. Great performances, a coherent story that doesnt just follow someone’s life, something that really feels like a film even though it’s based on someone’s life.
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Well holy shit. Never bopped my head as much during a musicians biopic.
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Joaquín Phoenix ha dato il tutto e per tutto e ha ricreato un Johnny Cash davvero bello e commovente.
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“i was keeping my feathers numbered for just such an emergency“ turns out joaquin phoenix is a good singer atleast as junk junk johnny cash he is, he could of done better in joker 2 then‼️ ring of fire could have been done better. ask her to marry you a hundred times until she finally says fine.
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This movie nailed it! It was so well done in my opinion, giving enough background but also taking us through the process. I love a bio pic that does that. The chemical between the actors really made the movie. It made me emotional in a good way but also made me so upset for his first wife.
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This is objectively good. Subjectively, I will never watch this again because I can’t watch movies where people are sad and on drugs. You might think, well what movie did you think you were watching and to that I’d respond that I know nothing about Johnny Cash but I should have predicted this. I thought Johnny Cash was about 5’7″ and as a result thought Joaquin Phoenix was too tall and therefore an unbelievable Johnny Cash. But I looked it…
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johnny cash had a bad cheating problem, and i hate that it doesn’t mention he ALSO cheated on June
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Joaquin Phoenix taşımış
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Mean mean man
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I enjoyed rewatching this more than I thought I would. I absolutely love the opening setup to the Folsom Prison show. I think this is a better movie if they figured out away to bookend it with that actual performance. It looks like you’re going to a funeral. Maybe I am.
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I wish they would have shown the time Johnny Cash got arrested for picking flowers in Starkville. Wanted to give this a watch since James Mangold directed A Complete Unknown, and it was really cool to hear John talk about Bob Dylan. I guess Mangold was really obsessed with that airport note Cash wrote to Dylan. This feels a lot more depressing than Mangold’s later attempt at a music bio pic. But, that makes a lot of sense for Johnny…
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Yeah I loved the hell out of this Well this was fucking beautiful. I fear I need to listen to Johnny Cash now Joaquin Phoenix was SO good in this Johnny and June have been on my mind ever since. “It might be nice to start playing acoustic guitar and be thought of as a singer and a songwriter, rather than a ‘grunge rocker’ … I could sit down on a chair and play acoustic guitar like Johnny Cash…
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just a bit repetitive, especially when over 2 and a half hours for the extended version. also the ending was a bit weird and sudden
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tbh my dad wld die for johnny cash, and yk what. This was a damn good biopic even if I don’t really listen you that much Cash.
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Chemistry unmatched
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#Best actresses: my favorite performances. . Revisitei Johnny e June depois de quase dez anos. Me faz rir, me faz pensar nas dinâmicas familiares e o que elas representam. O quanto reproduzimos para fugir de nós mesmos e da “maldição” sanguínea. Reese Witherspoon é a âncora de Joaquin Phoenix. E eu acho que os dois funcionam melhores juntos do que separadamente. Reese é de uma delicadeza bem vinda, fugindo do estereótipo a que foi relegada em seus primeiros filmes. Divertidos demais, por sinal. Reese tirou o melhor de um roteiro engessado e pronto para premiações.
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Incredible picture of cash’s life. I would say this is the best biopic of a musician I’ve seen
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The most “but daddy I can fix him” biopic ever made
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“you cant walk no damn line” *walk the line starts playing* god i love this movie
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“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.”
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Absolutely amazing film. Johnny Cash is my favourite artist, so I already knew I’d love this, but the performances from Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon were incredible. Genuinely the best movie I’ve seen for ages, I could watch it again and it’s only just finished. I can’t believe I didn’t know this movie existed but I’m glad I do now!
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Amazing performance from Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix! Check it out!
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I dont know but great
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The story of a man coercing a colleague who was nice to him to marry him after he blew up his life over it; good music and singing, but to call it romantic would be madness.
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Although I haven’t seen many, this was the best biopic I have watched. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon played Cash and Carter so well. They truly make you believe like they are them. Watching the story of Johnny Cash’s life in this movie only left me wanting to learn more about him and his music. He is an artist I’ve began listening to more and more and I feel like this was the perfect time for me to see this…
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cowboy taaaaake me awayyyyy
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Самый дефолтный байопик из всех, но при этом сделан невероятно качественно, идеальная химия между главными героями
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Bien mais le film s’arrête trop tôt à mon goût
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Cash es mi pastor
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johnny cash da goat
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June should’ve been at the club
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Musikken er rå, åpenbart: for en fengslende åpning! Filmen har en noe enkel historie, men gjør den opp for det med fantastisk skuespill og kjemi.
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It’s a bit slow at times, and the movie explained very little about the wife. Other then that, the singing was great and the acting was solid.
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colin put this on when i was in a bad mood and i fear it got me right out of it. so so good
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amazing depiction of addiction by phoenix also good music
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Really heartwarming
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I already saw this movie but, since it was a while back and since it was available on Disney+, I thought I might as well check it out again. To be honest, if there is one musical genre with which I don’t feel any connection whatsoever, it would be definitely Country music. Still, even though I didn’t like the genre, Johnny Cash was a very intriguing man and he had made some pretty bad*ss songs. The fact that I didn’t…
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Ótimo filme, muito legal pois não é uma biografia que idealiza o artista, e mostra que ele também era problemático.
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müzik kariyerinin yanında kendini toparlama mücadelesi daha çok ilgimi çekti
- Synopsis
- A chronicle of country music legend Johnny 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.
- Director
- James Mangold
- Writer
- James Mangold, Gill Dennis
- Studio
- Mars Media Beteiligungs, Tree Line Films, Catfish Productions, Fox 2000 Pictures
- Country
- Germany, USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2005
- Runtime
- 136 mins
- USA04 Sep 2005
- UK27 Oct 2005
- USA13 Nov 2005
- Belgium13 Sep 2005
- USA18 Nov 2005
- Netherlands02 Feb 2006
- UK03 Feb 2006
- France15 Feb 2006
- Portugal16 Feb 2006
- Italy17 Feb 2006
- South Korea09 Mar 2006
- Turkey14 Apr 2011
- Austria23 Oct 2005
- Japan26 Oct 2005
- Hungary02 Feb 2006
- Romania03 Feb 2006
- Poland17 Feb 2006
- UK22 May 2006
- Netherlands06 Aug 2008
- Netherlands03 Dec 2010
- Netherlands07 Oct 2008
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