September 2025

ShotDeck Drop: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

The visual research database ShotDeck recently added more than 500 stills from the comedy 2007 feature Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, shot by Uta Briesewitz, ASC for director Jake Kasdan (Zero Effect, Orange County, Bad Teacher). Released at a time when prestige music biopics were popular with critics and audiences — see Ray (shot by Pawel Edelman, PSC; AC Dec. '04) and Walk the Line (shot by Phedon Papamichael, ASC, GSC; AC Dec. '05) — Walk Hard lovingly skewers the genre's conventions with the fictional story of Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly), who endures a hardscrabble upbringing and the tragic death of a sibling before he finds his calling as a songwriter. Through the decades, he makes his mark on almost every style of popular music,...more