This movie tells the life of Johnny Cash through a series of clips that give us a glimpse of what are presumably the important moments that he encounters.

When the movie opens, Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) is just about to go onstage at Folsom Prison – we’ll find out more about just why he is doing so later.

But before he does, he starts to day dream while looking at a table saw, and that takes him back to 1944, where he recalls his brother, Jack.

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Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon) is a doctor who puts in some long hours. Even other doctors thinks that she works too much.

At the beginning of the movie, she finishes working a 26-hour shift and on her way out someone asks her to look at a patient and she agrees. That’s dedication. But she also has learned that she has just received a promotion, so it’s all worth it. Unfortunately she has given up any sense of a personal life in exchange, but she has decided that the exchange is worthwhile.

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