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John (Joaquin Phoenix) asks June (Reese Witherspoon) to marry him one last time on stage, and she finally says yes.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
James Mangold's Walk the Line tells the life story of country music legend Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix), focusing primarily on the long courtship he had with June Carter (Reese Witherspoon). The film is structured as an extended flashback opening with Cash readying to take the stage at his historic Folsom Prison Concert. The film touches on his childhood, relating a horrific early incident from his life and establishing the troubled relationship he would have with his father (Robert Patrick). Cash joins the military and leaves home. During his time in the armed services he begins writing songs and romances a hometown girl (Ginnifer Goodwin). After the end of his duty he settles down and attempts to begin a music career, but his wife has trouble adjusting to his dreams. Cash auditions for Sam Phillips (Dallas Roberts), signs to Sun Records, and soon finds himself on tour with a roster of young soon-to-be legends that includes Elvis Presley (Tyler Hilton) and Jerry Lee Lewis (Waylon Malloy Payne). On this tour he meets June Carter, the daughter of the famous Carter family, and they take a liking to each other, although she refuses any serious advances from him. Cash gains world-wide fame thanks in part to the inspiration he gets from June, but eventually his marriage crumbles and he develops a serious drug addiction. The film is based on Cash's autobiographies. Phoenix and Witherspoon performed all of their own singing in the movie, just as Sissy Spacek and Beverly D'Angelo did in Coal Miner's Daughter a quarter-century before.

CREDITS:
TM & © Fox (2005)
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Cast: Larry Bagby, Dan John Miller, Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon
Director: James Mangold
Producers: Alan C. Blomquist, John Carter Cash, James Keach, Cathy Konrad, Lou Robin
Screenwriters: Johnny Cash, Patrick Carr, James Mangold, Gill Dennis

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Transcript
00:00Sorry for the interruption, folks, but, uh, I've got to ask you a question before we finish a song.
00:16What's that, John?
00:20Will you marry me?
00:25Why don't we just sing the song, John?
00:28No, darling.
00:30Come on, finish the song. People want to hear us sing.
00:38Sorry, folks, but, uh, I just can't do this song anymore unless she's going to marry me.
00:44Just be like we're lying.
00:47You got these people all revved up, John, now. Come on, let's sing Jacksonville.
00:50You got me all revved up.
00:53I've asked you 40 different ways, and it's time you come up with a fresh answer.
00:56Please sing.
01:01I'm asking you to marry me.
01:04I love you, dude.
01:10Now, I know I said and done a lot of things, that I hurt you, but I promise I'll never do that again.
01:18I only want to take care of you.
01:20I will not leave you like that touch boy with your finger in the dead.
01:29You're my best friend.
01:32Bury me.
01:33I love you.
01:47I love you.
01:48I love you.
01:51She said yes.
02:21She said yes.

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