Sissy Spacek is incredible as country legend Loretta Lynn. She disappears into the role so completely that you'd swear Lynn was playing herself. Early scenes at home on the farm with Tommy Lee Jones are the film's strongest.
This review of Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) was written by Bradley H on 01 Sep 2012.
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