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Coal Miner's Daughter
Directed by
Michael Apted
PG
1980
2h 5m
Drama
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Biography
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7.5
84%
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The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.
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Cast of Coal Miner's Daughter
Sissy Spacek
Loretta Lynn
Tommy Lee Jones
'Mooney' Lynn
Levon Helm
Ted Webb
Beverly D'Angelo
Patsy Cline
William Sanderson
Lee Dollarhide
Phyllis Boyens
'Clary' Webb
Bill Anderson Jr.
Webb child
Foister Dickerson
Webb child
Malla McCown
Webb child
Pamela McCown
Webb child
Kevin Salvilla
Webb child
Sissy Lucas
Loretta & Mooney's child
Brian Warf
Loretta & Mooney's child
Elizabeth Watson
Loretta & Mooney's child
Bob Elkins
Bobby Day
Bob Hannah
Charlie Dick
Ernest Tubb
Ernest Tubb
Jennifer Beasley
Patsy Lynn
Frank Mitchell
Washington Neighbor
Roy Acuff
Roy Acuff (uncredited)
Minnie Pearl
Minnie Pearl (uncredited)
Susan Kingsley
Girl at Fairgrounds
Coal Miner's Daughter Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
Kathleen Carroll
Fortunately, Spacek and Jones are able to make up for the superficiality of the script. Spacek, who does all her own singing in a clear voice that is, at times, more affecting than that of Lynn herself, does one of her magical character transformations.
Chicago Tribune
Lynn Van Matre
The first part of the film is by far the most moving, and is almost continually captivating in terms of scenarios and backwoods settings.
Newsday
Joseph Gelmis
Cliches are like tarnished silver. Remove the accumulated dross and what is still precious will emerge. Coal Miner's Daughter does precisely that. It takes the rags-to-riches cliche and restores it to something beautiful to behold.
Orlando Sentinel
Dean Johnson
The appeal of Coal Miner's Daughter lies basically in its naturalness and, along with that, its honesty. And, unlike most film biographies of entertainers, this one is, indeed, entertaining.
TIME Magazine
Frank Rich
Like Loretta Lynn's music, the characters of Coal Miner's Daughter stay in the mind long after the drama that contains them runs out.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Pollack
There's a slick, plastic feeling to most Hollywood biographies, especially when the subject is still living, and while there are a lot of entertainment values to Coal Miner's Daughter, the plastic feeling remains.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
We don't so much root for Spacek as sit back and watch her tell us what happened. She's as much in control of this film as is her director.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Despite a wonderful and convincing performance from Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner's Daughter falls back on the teary conventions of a heroine who can't pay the price of success... Such thinking has damaged an otherwise excellent movie.
Variety
Variety Staff
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'.
Boston Globe
Bruce McCabe
Coal Miner's Daughter is most interesting when it's conveying the bleak, dreary Kentucky landscape that formed Lynn's childhood. It's least interesting when it's portraying the agonies of show-business success.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
In a time before the TV music channels made star biographies into such a formulaic joke, Coal Miner's Daughter was the real deal.
Los Angeles Times
Charles Champlin
The musical biography by now has a pattern as fixed as a traditional 12-bar blues. It is just that some blues are better than others, and so are some musical biographies. Coal Miner's Daughter... is on of the best of its kinds.
Detroit Free Press
Jack Mathews
It's a remarkable film, a slice of Americana seen through the compassionate, unprejudiced eyes of English director Michael Apted.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Wears thin as it plays on, devolving into familiar showbiz sentimentality.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
"Coal Miner's Daughter" risks understating its story to make Loretta Lynn's biography part of a larger fabric, and the gamble pays off.
Kansas City Star
Robert W. Butler
Ms. Spacek is a marvel. What other actress could convincingly play a character from age 13 to 36? It's one of those classic performances where we cease to even think of her as an actress. Up on that screen she is Loretta Lynn.
L.A. Weekly
Michael Ventura
Perhaps because director Michael Apted is English, his eye for American faces and his ear for American speech is more than refreshing in a town that usually goes for American plastic. Quite a good movie.
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Bill Morrison
Apted celebrates the woman, but fails to capture the performer. The musical sequences are void of the electricity that lured record audiences from the Carolinas to the Continent.
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