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My Father and the Man in Black
Directed by
Jonathan Holiff
Not Rated
2012
87m
Documentary
,
Biography
,
and more
6.5
67%
81%
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The untold story of 'bad-boy' Johnny Cash, his talented but troubled manager, Saul Holiff, and a son searching for his father in the shadow of a legend.
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Cast of My Father and the Man in Black
Johnny Cash
Self (archive footage)
Saul Holiff
Self (archive footage)
June Carter Cash
Self (archive footage)
David Disher
Johnny Cash at 30
Gary Holiff
Saul Holiff at 30
Jonathan Holiff
Self / Writer / Producer
Bill Haley
Self (archive footage)
Jon Blair
Phil Balsley
Jonathan Holiff
Director
Tanya Lyn Nazarec
Producer
Jennifer Phillips
Producer
My Father and the Man in Black Ratings & Reviews
Battleship Pretension
Sarah Brinks
Even with the distracting narration My Father and the Man in Black is a well made documentary with details about both Saul Holiff and Johnny Cash that until now were lost to the annals of time.
Under the Radar
Austin Trunick
It's certainly a more enlightening look than any big-budget Hollywood biopic could offer.
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
A strong story without the reconstructions. . . son/director could have trusted the powerful audio-visual material. . . instead of overplaying the reenactments and narration.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
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.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
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.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
This has the potential to be dreadfully maudlin stuff, but the film is too damn interesting to be maudlin.
New York Times
David DeWitt
Here these men are but ciphers; we want understanding, but we get only suggestion.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
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."
The Dissolve
Keith Phipps
My Father And The Man In Black is partly a biography of Saul Holiff, partly an account of Jonathan Holiff's relationship with his dad, and never particularly successful as either.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Partly transcends its inherent self-indulgence.
Contactmusic.com
Rich Cline
It'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.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
As 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.
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