Coal Miner's Daughter

COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER (PG)

D: Michael Apted

Universal (Bernard Schwartz)

USA 🇺🇸 1980

125 mins

Biopic/Musical

W: Tom Rickman [based on the autobiography by Loretta Lynn]

DP: Ralf D. Bode

Ed: Arthur Schmidt

Mus: Owen Bradley

PD: John W. Corso

Cos: Joe I. Tompkins

Sissy Spacek (Loretta Lynn), Tommy Lee Jones (Doolittle Lynn), Levon Helm (Ted Webb), Phyllis Boyens (Clara Ramey Webb), Beverly D'Angelo (Patsy Cline)

Biopic of Loretta Lynn, adapted from her own autobiography, detailing her life from her days as the wife of a backwoods Kentucky hillbilly to her stardom as a Country & Western singer.

Spacek does an excellent job portraying the famous singer, justifyably winning a Best Actress Oscar for her performance and lifting it well above the standard of a TV movie which this film may have become without her involvement.

7/10