The Dewey Cox

The Dewey Cox: The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 American  comedy film, written and produced by Judd Apatow (director of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up) and Jake Kasdan, directed by Jake Kasdan and starring John C. Reilly.

The Dewey Cox persona borrows from several prolific figures in rock history: Bob Dylan, The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jim Morrison, Brian Wilson, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Dean, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Donovan, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, but mainly Johnny Cash. The plot echoes the storyline of 2005’s Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line; Walk Hard is also a parody of the biopic genre as a whole.