Walk The Line

In a few words:

There's an unfortunate tendency for films like these (and Ray) to seem like extended episodes of Behind the Music, and Walk The Line does not wholly avoid it: They chart their subjects rise, fall--drug-related--and rise again.

But the performances, especially acting (I was particuarly impressed with Reese Witherspoon) but also musical, give this film much more life than the standard musical bio-pic.