ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

gsnow-creativedetails Let me first begin by saying I was born about eight years after Patsy Cline's death. I knew little of her growing up. It wasn't until I was watching an awards show performance of up and coming Reba McEntire singing "Sweet Dreams" that I got schooled. My mother told me that as good as Reba was, and she was great, she didn't come close to the original. Immediately radio stations were playing Cline's songs again and of course, "Sweet Dreams" came out about this time. My mother and I went to see it and I was hooked. Fourteen years old and in love with this larger than life character and that VOICE.I want to say this. I saw "Coal Miner's Daughter" and Beverly D'Angelo is a fine actress and I know it took guts to try to sing like Cline, but it backfired miserably. I see other reviewers do not agree, but how can you immerse yourself into a role AND be believable when your rendition is actually distracting? Having Patsy's REAL music as the backdrop saves this film from being worse that it could have been. It does look and feel like a made for TV movie, but with all the "GD's" etc being tossed around, it's more like made for cable. And it was produced by HBO so, I say it might have been intended for cable. Who knows...however, the music and the top notch casting make this film better than it deserves to be. Jessica Lange is completely convincing in each facet of Patsy's life they chose to show and it pains me to think that she did not walk away with the Oscar for this. She is very, very good. A step above D'Angelo both in acting, presence and her performances. PC was only thirty or so when she passed and I think people forget how young and sexy she really was. Yes, she wasn't a stick figure, but casting directors, especially in the 80's were not going to accurately portray that.My issue is, because of my obsession after seeing Sweet Dreams, I picked up several books and read about Patsy's life and the movie leaves SO MUCH OUT! I know they had to pick a time frame and stick to it and I know they chose to spotlight her marriage to mimic CMD, but come on, the real life story of Patsy deserves a better made film. And hopefully, if indeed it ever gets remade, let's hope they fact check their script and get it right. I am not so worried about the over melodramatic tone of the abusive relationship, because I am sure there was truth in that, but better writing and more details would be nice.Jessica Lange has called this one of her favorite performances and I can see why, she had great co stars and a great character. But she and Patsy deserved a more accurate, richer film. We all do. Watch this, grab one of the great books about her available and have fun discovering why this woman will never really be gone.

Michael Neumann This unremarkable screen biography of singer Patsy Cline is short on imagination, but it features a natural performance by Jessica Lange and some colorful country-western atmosphere. Perhaps the film's biggest problem is that Cline's turbulent life could only have been adapted to the screen as a conventional show-biz melodrama, and the result here is a more or less typical Hollywood romance, easy on the eyes even when not particularly interesting. The rags-to-troubled-riches scenario is hardly novel, but that doesn't diminish the incidental pleasures of seeing more or less the same story told for the umpteenth time.The film's soundtrack includes many of the singer's original recordings, expertly lip-synched by the cast.

mbhaynes Bernie Schwartz managed to take a relatively thin story (Patsy Cline had a relatively short career) into a totally engrossing, satisfying movie, country music fan or not. The acting is superb, and the work of the crew should not be overlooked. Costumes by Ann Roth were so spot on you don't even notice them, which is as it should be unless it's a major period piece. These are extraordinary actors and the film holds up for viewing after viewing after viewing. Ann Wedgeworth, purported to be extremely difficult to work with, was perfect as Patsy's mother. The surprise casting of Bruce Kirby as Arthur Godfrey took me three viewings to catch. Note that James Staley, boring first husband, Gerald Cline, played the boring husband Kevin Palmer in American Dreamer with JoBeth Williams. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes a good film, regardless of genre.

Cruzingodmother This movie was great. Iam a big Patsy Cline fan. She was wonderful. Even though she died 12 years before I was born, shes still the best singer I ever heard. & my all time favorite country singer. At the end where they showed the plane crash. I thought that was to sad. & maybe they should have left that part out, but I guess they had to show it, so they can show us what happened to Patsy. I have this movie on DVD. I've always been a patsy Cline fan. & always will be. Its one of my favorite movies. I always wonder what Charlie & there 2 children are doing now. & if Charlie really did hit her like it shows in the movie. Someday I want to go to winchester Va, See her hometown & see where shes buried, & also to the country music hall of fame in Nashville & see her things that are there. Thats my dream.