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Before Johnny Cash was the Man in Black, he was just another musician struggling to make something of himself. 'Walk the Line' chronicles the extraordinary rise to fame of a musical legend. Overcoming early hardships such as the accidental death of his brother, Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) stormed Nashville with his innovative blend of rock, folk, blues, gospel and country. But even as his creativity blossomed, his heavy drug use took a toll, leading to a period of destructive behavior and the failure of his first marriage. It was June Carter (Reese Witherspoon), daughter of the first family of country music, who lifted Cash out of his emotional chaos and helped him to become the man and the musician he was meant to be.
Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 3.68 ounces
Item model number : FOX2248795DVD
Media Format : Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time : 2 hours and 33 minutes
Release date : October 5, 2010
Actors : Joaquine Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts
Dubbed: : French, Spanish
Subtitles: : Spanish
Studio : 20th Century Fox
ASIN : B0010KHOS0
Number of discs : 2
Reviewer: pindrop notes
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: WHERE WERE YOU?
Review: âWalk the Lineâ is on its surface a love story between Johnny Cash and June Carter. But beneath its surface a deeper subject matter lies; grief and guilt over an untimely death. You have to wonder how many families pass around guilt when one of their own tragically dies young. Everyone must be swimming in pain not wanting to accept they may have in one way or another contributed to the unexpected devastation and therefore lay the burden on someone else in the family instead of asking what they themselves might have done differently to prevent the tragedy in the first place. Interestingly thereâs a film by Rian Johnson called âBrickâ which does the opposite. The lead character Brendan says on the subject of avenging his girlfriendâs death, âI set out to know who put her in the spot, who put her in front of the gun.â In other words he is not after the person who pulled the trigger and put the bullet into his girlfriend, but rather the person who put her in danger of getting shot in the first place.âWalk the Lineâ introduces its bookended grief in the form of an electric table saw. As the movie begins we see Johnny Cash leaning over and intensely observing the round ominous blade of one backstage as he prepares to perform his legendary Folsom Prison concert. At first we do not know why the blade is so important but as the movie continues we see how it played an extraordinary part in shaping the singer/songwriterâs life and we come back to the saw towards the end of the film right before he goes on stage.Johnny Cash, we find out, grew up on a farm with his mother, sisters, father and his older brother Jack. Jack was the fatherâs favorite because he was easier for the father to understandâ¦or rather because Jack was better at assimilating into what their father wanted. On one fateful day Jack and Johnny set out to go fishing but Jack, needing to earn money for the struggling family, stops at a place who hires him to slice boards with a table saw first. The scene is great at showing the precariousness of the saw with Johnny shutting it off at one point when Jack loses control of the wood. Jack tells Johnny to head out fishing without him and heâll catch upâ¦but Jack never does. Instead their father pulls up along the road Johnny is walking on and says, âWhere were you?â and the next scene shows the mangled and blood drenched Jack lying on his death bed with his family gathered round. Johnny yells out âDo something!â but no one can and Jack dies.Johnny then spends much of the rest of his childhood being hated by his father. His father even saying at one point the devil took the wrong son. In order to find solace Johnny escapes into his music which his mother introduces him to but no one really supports him in. He goes off and joins the military and finding himself lonely calls up a girl he used to date and proposes to her. And much like his family she doesnât understand him either.Finally one day a few years later after his first daughter Roseanne is born and heâs stuck in a job as a door to door salesman, Johnny happens upon a recording studio where he sees he could make a record. He gathers his two friends together as his band and they practice and audition much to the disappointment of his wife who wants him to get a job from her father and make some money. At first the bandâs audition goes poorly. But when Johnny starts singing a song he wrote while he was in the military called âFolsom Prison Bluesâ everything changes, they get a record deal and Johnnyâs story begins.The theme of guilt and grief continues to run through the film when we see even after he has become successful Johnny succumbs to letting his father say grace at the table during the holidays as a way to appease the man for the death of Jack. His family also dislikes June and their unrequited romance which becomes stronger and stronger the more they perform together until finally one Thanksgiving Johnny says to his father, âWhere were you?â In reference to Jackâs death, pointing out how his father, who was a notorious drinker wasnât around to save Jack either and the anger between father and son explodes.It is also interesting to point out that in a scene when he is discussing doing an acoustical concert at Folsom Prison after reading fan mail from inmates there one of the men says to him of his all black attire, âYou look like youâre going to a funeral.â To which Johnny Cash replies, âMaybe I am.â It is yet another reference to the constant shadow of his dead brother.Itâs a shame the film didnât include the deleted scenes in it because there really isnât a bad one in the bunch or one that couldnât have been in the film. In my opinion a film is either good or it isnât. And a good one should tell its story in its entirety no matter how long or how short it may be. The deleted scenes have great moments which further show the pressure of Johnnyâs guilt over Jackâs death and the way his brother haunts him such as when he stops at a bar after walking home from Juneâs house and find out the bar tenderâs name is Jack. Another deleted scene shows a fabric flower which Johnny unintentionally tore off of Juneâs dress at their first concert together sits on his desk as he tries to write âI Still Miss Someoneâ about the absence of Jack from his life.Even without these additional scenes âWalk The Lineâ is a terrific, well-structured film with wide audience appeal and the performances by Joaquin Phoenix and the deservedly Oscar winning Reese Witherspoon as June Carter who are both nothing less than phenomenal, especially when you consider not only their outstanding singing numbers together but the inner turmoil that must have eaten at Joaquin as he made the film considering he too tragically lost his brother River to a drug overdose on Halloween of 1993.
Reviewer: King Dimholt
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Historical, Dramatic, Sad, and Funny. But all Johnny Cash!
Review: "Walk the Line" is a great piece of work that covers an impressive amount of Johnny Cash's history.The movie starts with Mr. Cash getting ready to do his famous live record at Folsom Prison. When he sees a buzz saw, he goes into a series of flashbacks. (These flashbacks are of course the majority of the film.)The flashbacks go back to his childhood where he had to deal with not only with the tragic death of his brother, but his troubles with his father as well. We then go to his marriage with Vivian. We also have a comical look at JC's time as an unsuccessful door to door salesman. On the verge of financial desperation he is able to record his 1st record. (Can't exactly call it a CD here.)For a moment, all seems well, and his rocky marriage with Vivian starts to get better. But of course once he starts performing, it isn't long before June Carter comes into the picture. In my opinion, the marriage with Vivian may have survived. But the problem was she didn't have any affection for the music that was so important to Johnny. And we all know that June cared about the music. (She even came from a family that performed.) We all know what happened, but the breaking of Johnny and Vivian is VERY WELL delayed when we see small appearances from many famous contemporaries. (Elvis, Waylon Jennings, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis.) On a side note, the guy who did Jerry Lee REALLY deserves kudos for taking a small part, playing it to the hilt, and making a huge impression with it.Johnny develops not only an obsession with June, but a drug problem. June of course is against it, but she's not totally spotless. She does sleep with Johnny even though she knows that he has a wife and children.Johnny's fixation on June eventually makes it impossible for Vivian and Johnny to reconcile. And despite Vivian's uptight nature, we are allowed some sympathy for her. She seemed to grudgingly tolerate his thing for June, but hanging up pictures of her in the house was the last straw. The arguably saddest scene in the film is when Johnny and Vivian have their final fight. Vivian can only cry, and then the children fall into tears when they see the final fight.After losing his family, and having somewhat of a breakdown, Johnny goes through a long and painful recovery. (With the help of not only June, but her parents as well.)Johnny (recovered now and perhaps moved by his past troubles) decides to perform a great act of compassion and record the famous Live Folsom Prison record. And now we are back to the present.And of course, all that remains now is for June to say 'yes.'The movie is a bit long, but it's never boring. And it alternates well between the slow scenes and the quickly paced scenes. And of course, there is an impressive amount of Johnny's songs in it.The movie leaves me very little to complain about. In fact, only one thing. Maybe it isn't crucial, but it would have been interesting to show when Mr. Cash tried to kill himself. He wandered into a cave hoping to get lost and die. But he was guided out by light and mist, and he was convinced that Jesus stopped him from killing himself. From that moment, he became a very devout Christian. But of course, you can't put everything in one movie.Overall, it's a GREAT film that alternates well between slow scenes, quickly paced scenes, dialogue, music, comedy, and sadness. And that's arguably what makes it such a great film. At times we think we're watching a comedy, and at other times we think we're watching a tragedy.Finally, what makes it so great is that while Pheonix and Witherspoon play these historical (and recently deceased) characters with tremendous energy, we get a great cast of minor characters who were Mr. Cash's contemporaries.THEATRICAL VS DIRETOR'S CUT: The Director's Cut has about 20 extra minutes. In my opinion, the theatrical version flows better. When I watched the longer version, I honestly could understand why a lot of these scenes were removed from the theatrical version. Especially, the early 'Cry, Cry, Cry' scene. It was a little early for Vivian to say: "You hate me." It really started the crumbling of the marriage between Vivian and John too early.Slight difference. In the theatrical version, when Vivian and the children leave, Johnny screams: "Vivian, you're leaving all this?!" In the Director Cut he screams: "Vivian, leave them out of this!" I prefer the theatrical version in that it underlines that he sees Vivian leaving as a loss.Although, of the many deleted scenes, there are 3 of them that I wish they had left. (1) The scene where John is trying to write a song, and he has a hallucination of Jack, (2)The scene where after he had a fight with June, he went to a bar and couldn't stand to hear himself and June singing 'Jackson' on the radio, and (3) the longer scene with Waylon Jennings. The WJ scene is in the theatrical version, but it plays longer in the DC. Played longer, Waylon points out that Johnny was 'out' for 30 hours. So we can see that the drugs are starting to make Johnny less aware of time.Generally speaking, the theatrical version flows better, and it smartly moves gradually to the crumbling of the marriage between Vivian and Johnny. But the Director Cut (as drawn out as it might feel) includes interesting footage that Johnny is still suffering from the loss of Jack and that he is starting to lose awareness of time. You kind of have to make your own choice here. I like those 3 scenes, but I would have left most of the other deleted scenes out.
Reviewer: J. Jones
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: GREAT TRUE STORY!!
Review: Johnny and June Carter Cash story well done!Had no idea until afterwards that Reese Witherspoon actually sang all the songs. INCREDIBLE SINGER.Besides being a love story, Johnny Cash had quite a tough lifeâ¦. And this movie⦠has incredible moments of sorrow, redemption and fortitude.Joaquin Phoenix did such a great job that early into the movie⦠you truly believed you were watching the real Johnny Cash.He perfected the part! Truly incredible.So thankful I finally got to see this movie.
Reviewer: Blaine
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of my favorite movies.
Review: I've watched it multiple times back in the day in the theaters. Decided to show my son, since he likes Johnny, still holds up.
Reviewer: Debbie L
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good movie
Review: Would watch again
Reviewer: Javier
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Por fin encontre esta pelicula en dvd, lo malo es que esta en region 1, por lo que deben consultar si sus aparatos leen esa region
Reviewer: Barry Zunneberg
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great film and actor lm very happy with the seller and product
Reviewer: Darox
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Excellent Movie!
Reviewer: Renate
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Non conoscevo Johnny Cash e tanto meno sono un'esperta di musica country. Ho preso il film fidandomi delle recensioni su Amazon e devo dire che sono molto soddisfatta dell'acquisto. Intanto sono molto bravi i due protagonisti, Phoenix e la Witherspoon. E poi la trama è molto fluida, racconta la storia di questo cantante dall'infanzia difficile, con un rapporto burrascoso col padre, fino ad arrivare alla maturità e al successo. Pagando con un matrimonio finito male e un travagliato periodo dedito alla droga. Ma la sua smisurata passione per la musica e l'amore che prova per June, gli daranno la forza ed il coraggio per superare tutti gli ostacoli. Bellissime le musiche e la sua voce profonda, supportati da un ottimo audio. Ottimo anche il video. Consigliatissimo.
Reviewer: Advait Detha
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The influential and classic music of Johnny cash, his troubled life and the love story of him and June Carter (probably the greatest of the last century) are such tricky subjects to adapt on screen and when I say tricky, I mean so tricky that the only two things that are possible after it's completion is either a huge fail or a classic. The amazing, direction, writing and the breathtaking performances here by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon ensure that a classic is what we get.Joaquin Phoenix totally stuns you by making it impossible to tell between him and Cash. It's not just a portrayal he did, he became Johnny Cash. It comes as something of a surprise that he didn't receive and major awards as 'Best Actor' that year.Reese Witherspoon surely doesn't come up to Phoenix's level and remains somehow overshadowed by his comparatively much more powerful performance, but expecting any better from her won't be right because June Carter (or any other person ever to live) naturally wasn't as complex a person as Cash and with Phoenix portraying all the complexities perfectly, there wasn't much left for her and it's safe to say that it was well worth her 'Best Actress' Oscar.All in all, I cannot think of a better way to honor Cash's genius.