My Father and the Man in Black2013
My Father and the Man in Black (2013)
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Cast
as Saul Holiff at 50
as Johnny Cash at 30
as Saul Holiff at 40
as Johnny Cash at 40
as Saul Holiff at 75
as June Carter Cash
as Saul Holiff at 20
as Marshall Grant
as Luther Perkins
as WS 'Fluke' Holland
as Mother Maybelle
as Carl Perkins
as Voice of Johnny Cash
as Tex Ritter
as Self/Narrator
as Johnny Western
as Shel Silverstein
as Voice of June Carter Cash
as Voice of Saul Holiff
as Herself
as Herself
as Himself
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You get a strong whiff of what it must have been like to be Johnny Cash, or his exasperated manager, from this film. It would make a good companion piece to "Walk the Line.
It's good that Holiff wants to unlock this puzzle, but Cash is so compelling a figure that he is ultimately the only character we truly care about.
This has the potential to be dreadfully maudlin stuff, but the film is too damn interesting to be maudlin.
Here these men are but ciphers; we want understanding, but we get only suggestion.
Despite the clunky mix of narrative formats, "My Father and the Man in Black" makes for an illuminating alternate history of sorts to the Hollywoodized version of Cash's ascendancy in "Walk the Line."
Partly transcends its inherent self-indulgence.
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| Voice of Johnny Cash: | I had become habituated to amphetamines, barbiturates and alcohol...all three at the same time. I got up to a habit of as many as a hundred pills a day and a case of beer. And, um, t here was a lot of people OD'd on a lot less than that. |
| Voice of Johnny Cash: | I had become habituated to amphetamines, barbiturates and alcohol...all three at the same time. I got up to a habit of as many as a hundred pills a day and a case of beer. And um, there was a lot of people OD'd on a lot less than that. |