Review of Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) by Jesse L — 24 Apr 2009
An acclaimed and but near-heavy going biopic of the life of acclaimed country and western singer Loretta Lynn, is brought to life by director Michael Apted, blessed with a near perfect Oscar-winning lead performance.
The film shows Loretta (Sissy Spacek), born in the town of Butcher Hollow, Kentucky in 1932, her father was coal miner Ted Webb (Levon Helm), she was married off at the age of 13 to Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn (Tommy Lee Jones), and she had 4 children by the time she was 17, (she was a Grandmother at 29!! :O), noticing Loretta has a beautiful singing voice, Doolittle buys Loretta a guitar, an instrument she's never played.
But, practice makes perfect, and by the age of 25, she'd recorded her first record, and she and Doolittle went around radio stations promoting her, and she makes it to the Grand Ole Opry as she deals with the joys and hardships of fame.
It's a powerful and hard hitting story, Sissy Spacek is brilliant as Lynn and she has a brilliant singing voice too, and Tommy Lee Jones is a hardass Doolittle, you can't believe Loretta put up with him for so long, but she did, and she's still belting them out to this day.
This review of Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) was written by Jesse L on 24 Apr 2009.
Coal Miner's Daughter has generally received very positive reviews.
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