Review of Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) by Roger Ebert for Chicago Sun-Times — 05 Sep 2001
It's warm, entertaining, funny, and centered around that great Sissy Spacek performance, but it's essentially pretty familiar material (not that Loretta Lynn can be blamed that Horatio Alger wrote her life before she lived it).
The movie isn't great art, but it has been made with great taste and style; it's more intelligent and observant than movie biographies of singing stars used to be. That makes it a treasure to watch, even if we sometimes have the feeling we've seen it before.
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This review of Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) was written by Roger Ebert and published by Chicago Sun-Times on 05 Sep 2001.
Coal Miner's Daughter has generally received very positive reviews.
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