Artivels Undescribable Perfection

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

joyce79djh I just love this film!! All the acting is so realistic- OMG- YOU CAN SMELL THE COAL DUST !! Then when Loretta Lynn is a Country singing star- I feel like I am there -like helping her Both my Grandfather &his Father were CoalMiners in Pennsylvania for a while it is too hard They got other jobs

Syl Loretta Lynn is perhaps the best known female country singer around today. Sissy Spacek was awarded a well-deserved Academy Award for her performance as the country music icon. Sissy perfectly captures Loretta's voice, mannerisms and personality in her performance. She begins the film as a naive 14 year old girl from a large coal mining family in small town Kentucky. Through the film, viewers watch Loretta grow up, marry, became a mother and then a country music singer. Tommy Lee Jones played her husband. He was perfectly cast in the role and is believable in the role. Doolittle comes home from the war in Kentucky and spots young Loretta. Levon Helm played Loretta's coal mining father. He was also a music icon too. The film was done on location in Kentucky and Tennesee as well. British film director Michael Apted did a phenomenal job in directing this classic film. I loved seeing the Ryman Auditorium (The Grand Old Opry) in Nashville. I was fortunate to see Loretta Lynn perform "Coal Miner's Daughter" at the new Grand Old Opry in Nashville ten years ago. We learn about the hardships and labor of coal mining. Doolittle and Loretta marry in a justice of the peace ceremony. Loretta and Doolittle move to Washington State for Doo's work. He gets a guitar for his wife as a present. There is a beautiful love story despite the age difference between Loretta and Doolittle. Loretta Lynn has come a long way since those days in a log cabin in Kentucky but she hasn't forgotten her roots.

robert-259-28954 There are few motion pictures that I describe as "perfect." This is one of them. As much as I enjoy biopics, alas, many of them tend to be heavy-handed, with few offering stellar performances. But this picture succeeds on every level—star power, direction, story, and concept. I'm not a country music fan at all, but any great film overcomes such considerations, as this one does in spades. Sissy Spacek, is in a word: INCREDIBLE. Few people have succeeded as well at truly bringing anyone, especially a world famous one, to life as well as she did, her acting abilities being on display as with few others. She was essentially, PERFECT for the role, even winning out over the great Meryl Streep for the part. She's naturally a Southerner, so the drawl came naturally to her, she virtually disappeared into the role, and her singing voice was shocking like the country diva herself, adding a dimension of utter realism to the film that few other actors could even approach. As in every great movie, it is only as good as its actors, and with the stunning Tommy Lee Jones, and Beverly D'Angelo delivering a powerful performance as Loretta Lynn's friend and confidante, Patsy Cline, was a total surprise. She also did all of her own singing, surprising me with her vocal talent as well, doing terrific, eerily accurate renditions of Patsy's classic country tunes. Tommy Lee is one of America's most underrated actors, whose wide range of often conflicted characters has made him a modern day icon. What he brought to the part was the perfect counterpart to Spacek, a naturalistic approach that was both solid and rich with nuance. "Coal Miner's Daughter" is a truly memorable movie, whose approach and "down home country charm" never gets old or dated, and will stand the test of time.

dpomiller If you are wondering why and how Coal Miner's Daughter got made here is the history. In l980 I worked for Bernie Schwartz, the producer of this film. There was a "Reader's Digest Condensed Book" sitting on the coffee table in the front office. I picked it up and read "Loretta Lynn's Story." I finished it and thought it would be a good TV film. I went to Bernie and told him. He called Ned Tanen, Head of Universal Pictures. He saw him the next day and got a deal. Ned figured at the very least they could sell the album since Loretta Lynn recorded for MCA records. They also owned Universal. Bernie then called Thom Rickman, who wrote it. The Englsh director, Apted, came over to direct it and they got Sissy. Ironically, I read the book because the scripts I had been reading were boring. And what happened to me.. .