10 Great Movies Starring The Office Cast
2. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Walk Hard achieves something quite incredible. Being a funny spoof movie is one thing, but this is a genre pastiche that outstrips just about any film it sends up. Made shortly after the ponderous one-two punch of Ray and Walk The Line, this John C Reilly vehicle is razor sharp in aping the cliches and archetypes that still populate most musical biopics to this day.
Reilly plays the titular Dewey Cox, who’s primarily a Johnny Cash type but with bits of Ray Charles, Jim Morrison, and Brian Wilson thrown in there. Jenna Fisher pulls out her best Reese Witherspoon impression as Darlene, the guileless June Carter figure who Cox meets as a young choir singer.
Unlike a lot of comedies of the era, Fisher is actually given a lot to do, with her duets alongside Reilly a high point. She’s not given the material most of the men have, admittedly, but it’s a solid turn in a genuinely good film that has aged surprisingly well due to Hollywood’s inability to stop making biopics using the cliches Walk Hard sends up.