Coal Miner's Daughter (Blu-ray) PG
She became a singer because it was the only thing she could do. She became a star because it was the only way she could do it.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 7, 2014
- Originally Released: 1980
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones & Beverly D'Angelo | |
Performer: | Levon Helm | |
Directed by | Michael Apted | |
Edited by | Arthur Schmidt | |
Screenwriting by | Thomas Rickman | |
Director of Photography: | Ralf D. Bode |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1980 -
Best Actress: Sissy Spacek
Entertainment Reviews:
A rousing musical biopic that is a cut above its peers.
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Film4
...A thoughtful, endearing film....Both Spacek and D'Angelo deserve a special nod of credit for doing all of their own singing with style and accuracy...
Variety
Highly conventional stuff, but lovingly constructed to produce unremarkable but heart-warming entertainment.
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Time Out
This uplifting drama, based on Loretta Lynn's autobiography, shows how her marriage kept changing to accommodate her career as the First Lady of country music.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 5/5 --
Superior biopic with an unforgettable performance by Sissy Spacek
Lawrence Journal-World
Coal Miner's Daughter is most interesting when it's conveying the bleak, dreary Kentucky landscape that formed Lynn's childhood. It's least interesting when it's portraying the agonies of show-business success.
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Boston Globe
[Sissy Spacek] brings to the character a wide-eyed ingenuousness and refreshing love of the small but wondrous things in life.
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Sojourner
Product Description:
The story of Loretta Lynn, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER charts the rise of the queen of country music from her upbringing in backwoods Appalachia to stardom at the Grand Ole Opry. One of eight children, she married at age 13 and was a mother of four at age 20. Shy and naive, she was pushed into music by her husband, Doolittle, who gave her a guitar instead of a ring for their wedding, in what was to be a career that also tracked her complicated relationship with this man. His strengths helped her create numerous hit singles, but his weaknesses inspired such immortal songs as "You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man." Sissy Spacek won an Oscar for her virtuoso performance, mimicking Lynn's voice nearly perfectly, while Beverly D'Angelo solidly impersonates Patsy Cline; unlike other music biographies, this film features both actors using their own voices in the singing scenes. Country music legend Ernest Tubb also makes a cameo. For director Michael Apted, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER is one in a series of films--AGATHA, GORILLAS IN THE MIST, and NELL--he has made about strong, eccentric women.