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Life made him tough. Love made him strong. Music made him hard.

Overview

Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    John C. Reilly

    Dewey Cox

  2. Cast 1

    Jenna Fischer

    Darlene Madison

  3. Cast 1

    Raymond J. Barry

    Pa Cox

  4. Cast 1

    Kristen Wiig

    Edith

  5. Cast 1

    Tim Meadows

    Sam

  6. Cast 1

    Harold Ramis

    L'Chaim

  7. Cast 1

    Margo Martindale

    Ma Cox

  8. Cast 1

    Chris Parnell

    Theo

  9. Cast 1

    Matt Besser

    Dave

Decent watch at best, won't watch again, but can recommend. I only recommend this as I think enough people like J.C. Reilly, and SNL style skits. This movie is essentially a long series of SNL sketches sewn together. I'm not a fan of this style of writing because it doesn't seem to matter what order you put some of the bits in, it's just stopping the story to tell a joke or two, moving onto another joke or two, etc., until they decide to go back to the part of the movie that progresses the story. Perhaps, watching a movie like this critically is counter intuitive, but even if I were ...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$35,000,000.00

Revenue $18,317,151.00

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