
After the suicide of Johnny Cash's former manager, Saul Holiff, his estranged son, Jonathan Holiff, returns home. There, Jonathan learns from his mother that his father's personal records exist in storage. As Jonathan searches through them, he discovers much about his father's life of deferred dreams in London, Ontario until he became the manager of Johnny Cash. From there, Jonathan learns of his father's hectic life managing the erratic country star with his personal demons ... (Full plot summary below)
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After the suicide of Johnny Cash's former manager, Saul Holiff, his estranged son, Jonathan Holiff, returns home. There, Jonathan learns from his mother that his father's personal records exist in storage. As Jonathan searches through them, he discovers much about his father's life of deferred dreams in London, Ontario until he became the manager of Johnny Cash. From there, Jonathan learns of his father's hectic life managing the erratic country star with his personal demons and moods and how the material success came with a profound cost of its own for Saul. In doing so, Jonathan gets a new perspective of a father who had his problems that he never fully conquered himself.
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| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlAs Cash might say, it has the heart, and it has the blood, and by the time childhood chatter is played back again, feeling is soaked through it like the sweat in Cash's guitar strap. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerYou 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.” |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyThis has the potential to be dreadfully maudlin stuff, but the film is too damn interesting to be maudlin. |
| ViewLondonJennifer TateIncredibly eye-opening and extraordinary thanks to endearingly personal accounts and strong archival footage. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsPlays like a non-fiction Walk the Line with script input by Eugene O'Neill. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe film offers a privileged perspective on crucial moments in Johnny Cash's career, and serious fans will likely warm to it on the small screen. |
| Under the RadarAustin TrunickIt's certainly a more enlightening look than any big-budget Hollywood biopic could offer. |
| The GuardianAndrew PulverFor Cash devotees who want a hitherto-hidden perspective on their man, though, this is invaluable viewing. |
| Contactmusic.comRich ClineIt's fascinating to look at the life of Johnny Cash from a new angle, even if this documentary feels somewhat self-indulgent and a bit amateurish. |
| Observer (UK)Philip FrenchThis film is rather like BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, but with altogether too many scenes re-enacted by lookalikes. |