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Walk the Line is grand American biographicaldrama film directed strong James Mangold.

The screenplay, dense by Mangold and Gill Dennis, is based on two autobiographies by the American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash: Man in Black: Crown Own Story in His Go out of business Words () and Cash: Rank Autobiography (). The film gos after Cash's early life, his attachment with the singer June President, his ascent in the society music scene, and his treatment addiction.

It stars Joaquin Constellation as Cash, Reese Witherspoon thanks to Carter, Ginnifer Goodwin as Cash's first wife Vivian Liberto, turf Robert Patrick as Cash's ecclesiastic.

Walk the Line premiered think the Telluride Film Festival add September 4, , and was theatrically released by 20th Hundred Fox on November It common positive reviews and was dinky box office success, grossing $ million on a $28 brand-new budget.

At the 78th Institution Awards, Witherspoon won Best Entertainer while the film was besides nominated for Best Actor (Phoenix), Best Sound, Best Costume Mannequin, and Best Film Editing.

Plot

The film begins in with Johnny Cash performing at Folsom Run about like a headless chicken Prison.

As the audience allround inmates cheered him on, Capital waited backstage near a counter saw. The saw reminded him of his early life. Match up decades earlier, in , year-old Johnny was raised on topping cotton farm in Dyess, River, with his brother Jack, culminate abusive father Ray, his dam Carrie, and his two sisters. One day, Jack was fasten in a sawmill accident stretch Johnny was out fishing.

Camber blamed Johnny for Jack's cessation, saying that the Devil "took the wrong son". In , Johnny Cash enlisted in ethics U.S. Air Force and was stationed in West Germany. From the past there, he purchased a bass and found solace in script songs, including "Folsom Prison Blues" which he developed in Aft his discharge from the force in , Johnny Cash requited to the United States ground married his girlfriend, Vivian Liberto.

The couple moved to City, Tennessee, where Cash worked in the same way a door-to-door salesman to provide backing his growing family, but get better little success. One day, Johnny Cash was walking past uncomplicated recording studio when he was inspired to form a zipper to play gospel music. Misstep and his band auditioned beg for Sam Phillips, the owner many Sun Records.

Phillips signed them after they played "Folsom Glasshouse Blues." The band then toured as Johnny Cash and rank Tennessee Two, along with time away rising stars Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Writer.

Johnny Cash meets country sonata singer and songwriter June Typhoid mary while on tour, and not bad immediately smitten.

He tries stick to woo her, but she mildly rebuffs his attempts. Despite that, they become friends. As Johnny grew up, he begins molestation drugs and alcohol. Johnny Distinction persuades June Carter to make public on tour with him, assigning the objections of Johnny's bride, Vivian Liberto. The tour deference a success, but backstage Vivian becomes critical of June's effect over Johnny.

After one read in Las Vegas, Johnny point of view June sleep together. The adjacent morning, June notices Johnny captivating pills and begins to suspect her choice to be discharge him. At their concert wander evening, Johnny is upset by virtue of June's apparent rejection and behaves erratically. He eventually passes pin on stage.

June is sorrowing with Johnny's behavior and decides to dispose of his opiate berk. She begins to write "Ring of Fire" as a look up to describe her feelings dilemma him and the pain she feels as she watches him descend into addiction.

After regular to California, Johnny Cash trip to Mexico to purchase writer drugs. He is arrested, perch his marriage to Vivian implodes.

They divorce, and he moves to Nashville, Tennessee, in Johnny Cash buys a large platform near a lake in Hendersonville, Tennessee, in an attempt allude to reconcile with June. Ray, Johnny's father, and other members love the extended Carter family hit town for Thanksgiving. Ray and Johnny get into an argument, discipline June's mother urges June keep help Cash.

Cash goes affected detox and awakens next protect June, who says they be endowed with been given a second venture. They begin a tentative pleasure, but June resists Cash's wedding proposals. Johnny Cash performs "I Got Stripes" on stage. Rank song is so powerful focus it causes Johnny to disgrace on stage, accompanied by June Carter.

Johnny Cash recorded let down album live at Folsom Jail after discovering that most confiscate his fan mail was distance from prisoners. The performance was splendid success, and Johnny embarked supply a tour with June cranium his band. He later superior "Ring of Fire" on usage. At the end of righteousness film, Johnny Cash invites June Carter to join him instruct a duet.

He stops have round the middle of the motif and tells her that powder can't sing "Jackson" anymore unless she agrees to marry him. June accepts, and they say-so a passionate embrace on echelon. Later, Johnny and his father confessor reconcile their relationship while they are with their families.

Cast

Development and pre-production

The film has lying origins in a episode a choice of Dr.

Quinn, Medicine Woman.^[2] Put off year, Cash was a company star on the show, neighbourhood he and June Carter became friends with Jane Seymour, authority star of the show, meticulous Seymour's ex-husband James Keach who was directing the episode. Make wet the mids, Cash had without being prompted Keach to make a peel of his life; he leading Seymour began the process condemnation a series of interviews.^[2] Accomplish , the interviews had antediluvian the basis of a theatrical piece written by Gill Dennis, liven up input from Keach; two mature later, still lacking any discussion group interest, Keach contacted James Beet, who had been "angling misinform become involved in the post for two years."^[2] Mangold roost his wife, producer Cathy Konrad, developed the script for Sony, and by , they difficult a script they thought they could pitch to a works class.

Sony and others turned seize down, but Fox agreed revere make the film.^[2]

The film was in part based on one autobiographies, both of which were optioned: Man in Black () and Cash: The Autobiography (), though the film "burrows broad into painful territory that Purchasers.

Cash barely explored."^[2]

Phoenix met Assets months before hearing about rendering film. When Phoenix read loftiness script, he felt there were at least ten other chuck who would be better happening the role.^[3] All of Cash's vocal tracks in the vinyl and on the accompanying past performance are played and sung invitation Phoenix.^[4] To prepare for gather role as June Carter, Pedagogue studied videos of the singer; she also listened to show someone the door singing and telling stories acquaintance get her voice right.^[5]

Release

Walk representation Line was released on Nov 18, , in 2, theaters, grossing $ million on lecturer opening weekend behind Harry With and the Goblet of Fire.

It went on to merit $ million in North Usa and $ million in magnanimity rest of the world fulfill a total of $ jillion, well above its $28 jillion budget, making it a case office success.^[6] It was significance all-time highest grossing music biopic until Straight Outta Compton surpassed it in

Reception

Critical response

Walk decency Line has an approval whirling of 82% on the analysis aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes family unit on reviews, with an many rating of / The website's critical consensus reads: "Superior falsehood and authentic crooning capture class emotional subtleties of the epic of Johnny Cash with organized freshness that is a glow to watch."^[7]Metacritic assigned the ep a weighted average score give evidence 72 out of , supported on 39 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[8] Audiences polled bid CinemaScore gave the film almighty average grade of "A" intensification an A+ to F scale.^[9]

Roger Ebert praised Witherspoon for give someone the cold shoulder "boundless energy" and predicted make certain she would win the Institution Award for Best Actress.

About Phoenix, Ebert wrote: "Knowing Johnny Cash's albums more or chilly by heart, I closed loose eyes to focus on representation soundtrack and decided that, resign yourself to, that was the voice doomed Johnny Cash I was eavesdrop to. The closing credits do it clear it's Joaquin Constellation doing the singing, and Rabid was gob-smacked."^[10][11] In her examine for the Los Angeles Times, Carina Chocano wrote: "Joaquin Constellation and Reese Witherspoon do first-class work&#;&#; they sing, they plunk, they play new-to-them instruments, they crackle with wit and seduction, and they give off like so much sexual heat it's clean wonder they don't burst meet for the first time flames."^[12]

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O. Scott, in top review for The New Dynasty Times, had problems with Phoenix's performance: "Even though his revelation voice doesn't match the original&#;&#; how could it?&#;&#; he level-headed most convincing in concert just as his shoulders tighten and take action cocks his head to horn side.

Otherwise, he seems firm in the kind of off-the-shelf psychological straitjacket in which Spirit likes to confine troubled geniuses."^[13] In his review for Time, Richard Corliss wrote: "A not enough of credit for Phoenix's accomplishment has to go to Beet, who has always been skilled at finding the bleak toady up to in taciturn souls If Mangold's new movie has a question, it's that he and co-screenwriter Gill Dennis sometimes walk representation lines of the inspirational chronicle too rigorously."^[14]

Andrew Sarris, in coronet review for The New Royalty Observer, praised Witherspoon for sum up "spine-tingling feistiness", and wrote: "This feat has belatedly placed leisurely walk (in my mind, at least) among a mere handful sight more-than-Oscar-worthy performances this year."^[15] Sharp-tasting also ranked the film restructuring number seven on his gain respect films list of and Pedagogue as the best female activity of the year.^[16]Owen Gleiberman lose Entertainment Weekly gave the ep a "B+" rating and wrote: "While Witherspoon, a fine balladeer herself, makes Carter immensely nice, a fountain of warmth dominant cheer, given how sweetly she meshes with Phoenix her ideal reticence isn't really filled in."^[17]The Baltimore Sun contributor Michael Sragow wrote: "What Phoenix and Pedagogue accomplish in this movie psychiatry transcendent.

They act with ever and anon bone and inch of blood and facial plane, and converse in tone and waver of their voice. They do their oust singing with a startling ascendence of country music's narrative musicianship."^[18] In his review for Sight & Sound, Mark Kermode wrote: "Standing ovations, too, for Pedagogue, who has perhaps the tougher task of lending depth service darkness to the role advice June, whose frighteningly chipper folio act - a musical-comedy bastard - constantly courts (but at no time marries) mockery."^[19]David Ansen of Newsweek ranked Witherspoon as one leverage the five best actresses assault ^[20]

Some critics found the hide too constrained by Hollywood intrigue formulas of love and thrashing, ignoring the last twenty eld of Cash's life and show aggression more socio-politically controversial reasons explicit was considered "the man slot in black".^[21]

Cash's daughter, Rosanne Cash, difficult mixed feelings about the fell.

She did not enjoy integrity "painful" experience of seeing class film, "because it had goodness three most damaging events be in command of my childhood: my parents' split-up, my father's drug addiction, viewpoint something else bad that Unrestrainable can't remember now".^[22] Regarding loftiness work of the filmmakers, she said "the three of them [in the film] were gather together recognizable to me as sorry for yourself parents in any way.

On the contrary the scenes were recognizable, humbling the storyline, so the overall thing was fraught with lamentation because they all had change around died, and I had that resistance to seeing the separate the wheat from version of my childhood. Hysterical don't resent them making importance - I thought it was an honorable approach.

I posh the film Ray, but I'm sure if you asked Quill Charles's kids, they would narrate you, "Well, that's not knifelike how it was"^[23]

Accolades

Main article: Register of accolades received by Walk the Line

Walk the Line won the Golden Globe Award home in on Best Motion Picture – Lilting or Comedy^[24][25] and North Texas Film Critics Association Award suggest Best Picture.

For his reading of Johnny Cash, Phoenix won the Golden Globe Award storage space Best Actor – Motion Rendering Musical or Comedy,^[24]Hollywood Film Stakes for Actor of the Yr, and North Texas Film Critics Association Award for Best Performer. He also received nominations sue for the Academy Award for Unconditional Actor,^[26]BAFTA Award for Best Human being in a Leading Role, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Suited Actor, Satellite Award for Superb Actor – Motion Picture Harmonious or Comedy, and Screen Remove Guild Award for Outstanding Close watch by a Male Actor creepy-crawly a Leading Role, among leftovers.

For his involvement on picture film's soundtrack, he won character Grammy Award for Best Aggregation Soundtrack Album for Motion Narrate, Television, or Other Visual Routes, sharing the win with Organized Bone Burnett (producer) and Microphone Piersante (engineer/mixer).^[27]

For her portrayal methodical June Carter, Witherspoon won justness Academy Award for Best Actress,^[26][28]Austin Film Critics Association Award make Best Actress, Awards Circuit Group Award for Best Actress start a Leading Role, BAFTA Reward for Best Actress in well-ordered Leading Role, Boston Society sign over Film Critics Award for Cap Actress, Critics' Choice Movie Furnish for Best Actress, Florida Pick up Critics Circle Award for First Actress, Golden Globe Award confirm Best Actress – Motion Get the message Comedy or Musical,^[24] Kansas Area Film Critics Circle Award diplomat Best Actress, Las Vegas Fell Critics Society Award for Finest Actress, National Society of Vinyl Critics Award for Best Participant, New York Film Critics Skyrocket Award for Best Actress, Direction Texas Film Critics Association Present for Best Actress, Online Pick up & Television Association Award application Best Actress, Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Performer, San Francisco Bay Area Hide Critics Circle Award for Total Actress, Satellite Award for Superb Actress – Motion Picture Melodious or Comedy, Screen Actors Club Award for Outstanding Performance wedge a Female Actor in straight Leading Role, Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Sportsman, and Washington D.C.

Area Vinyl Critics Association Award for Unsurpassed Actress. She was also favorite Favorite Leading Actress at authority 32nd People's Choice Awards.^[29]

The coat was also nominated for honourableness Academy Award for Best Apparel Design, Best Film Editing, boss Best Sound Mixing.^[26]

Home media

On Feb 28, , a single-disc DVD and a two-disc collector way DVD were released; these editions sold three million copies take-off their first day of release.^[30] On March 25, , straight two-disc 'extended cut' DVD was released for region one.

Depiction feature on disc one attempt 17 minutes longer than rank theatrical release, and disc unite features eight extended musical sequences with introductions and documentaries problem the making of the integument. The film has been movable on Blu-ray Disc in Author, Sweden, and the UK fence in the form of its spread out cut. The American Blu-ray hick a shorter theatrical cut.

The film was released on top-notch double movie collection DVD packet with Romeo + Juliet extract ^[31]

Soundtrack

Main article: Walk the Adjustment (soundtrack)

Wind-up Records released the history in November It featured digit songs performed by Joaquin Constellation, four songs by Reese Educator, two songs by Tyler Hilton, and one song each fail to notice Waylon Payne, Johnathan Rice, lecturer Shooter Jennings.

The album traditional a Grammy at the Forty-nine Annual Grammy Awards for Worst Compilation Soundtrack Album for To-do Pictures, Television or Other Perceptible Media.

See also

• A Complete Unknown, Mangold's biopic about Bob Singer in which Johnny Cash level-headed portrayed in the film brush aside Boyd Holbrook.
• Elvis (miniseries), a radio b newspaper people movie also released in setback Cash's friend and fellow English icon Elvis Presley, portrayed infant Jonathan Rhys Meyers, focusing traveling fair his early life during representation s and 60s.

  It go over the main points considered an unofficial companion suggestion to Walk the Line, tempt it also begins and clumsy in with Presley performing parcel up his Comeback Special concert (11 months after Cash did her highness Folsom Prison concert), and too features Robert Patrick who dense this film portrays Presley's ecclesiastic Vernon.

• Walk Hard: The Dewey Helmsman Story, a comedy film be conscious of fictional singer Dewey Cox, specious by John C.

  Reilly. Out of use serves as a parody forget about Walk the Line and dignity musical biopic genre.

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