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Coal Miner's Daughter

1980

Michael Apted

Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Phyllis Boyens ...

6.6

722

Drama At only thirteen years of age, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognises his wife's musical talent, and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. This gift sets Loretta Lynn on the gruelling, tumultuous path to country music greatness.

	Author	Review
United States	Variety	"A thoughtful, endearing film charting the life of singer Loretta Lynn from the depths of poverty in rural Kentucky to her eventual rise to the title of 'queen of country music."	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"'Coal Miner's Daughter' features four extraordinary performances (...) Its characterizations and its atmosphere work better than the action, which becomes shapeless"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"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. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"There's warmth and keen observation in the early Appalachian scenes, but [it] wears thin as it plays on, devolving into familiar showbiz sentimentality"	NEU

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