Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 0
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Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 0
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Loretta Lynn was one of the first female superstars in country music and remains a defining presence within the genre; with her strong, clear, hard-country voice and tough, no-nonsense songs about husbands who cheat and wives who weren't about to be pushed around, Lynn introduced a feminist mindset to Nashville years before the phrase "women's liberation" became common currency. Coal Miner's Daughter is a screen adaptation of Lynn's autobiography, starring Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn. One of
Mar 7, 1980 Wide
May 6, 2003
MCA Universal Home Video
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Cast
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Sissy Spacek
Loretta Lynn -
Tommy Lee Jones
Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn -
Beverly D'Angelo
Patsy Cline -
Levon Helm
Ted Webb -
Phyllis Boyens
Clara Webb -
Ernest Tubb
Himself -
Robert Elkins
Bobby Day -
Bob Hannah
Charlie Dick -
Bill Anderson Jr.
Webb Children -
Foster Dickerson
Webb Child -
Malla McCown
Webb Child -
Pamela McCown
Webb Child -
Kevin Salvilla
Webb Child -
Sissy Lucas
Loretta and Mooney's Ch... -
Brian Warf
Loretta & Mooney's Chil... -
Elizabeth Watson
Loretta and Mooney's Ch... -
David Barry Gray
Doc Turner -
J. Michael Baish
Storekeeper -
Charles Kahlenberg
Business Manager -
Merle Kilgore
Cowboy at Tootsie's -
Susan Kingsley
Girl at Fairgrounds -
Gary Parker
Radio Station Manager -
William Sanderson
Lee Dollarhide -
David Thornhill
The Coal Miner's Band -
Frank Mitchell
Washington Neighbor -
Billy Strange
Speedy West -
Jim Webb
Bus Driver -
Doug Bledsoe
Cowboy at Grange Hall -
Royce Clark
Hugh Cherry -
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Billy West
The Patsy Cline Band -
Pat Patterson
Loretta's Children
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All Critics (14) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (0) | DVD (15)
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'.
Top CriticHighly conventional stuff, but lovingly constructed to produce unremarkable but heart-warming entertainment.
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.
Loretta Lynn's tough but heartwarming biopic.
Though a classic rags to riches saga, this biopic of Loretta Lynn doesn't fall victim to cliches, and benefits immensely from the astonishingly authentic turn from Sissy Spacek, who does her own singing; even real-life singer Lynn liked the picture
Eschews convention and presents one of the more honest and non-pandering Hollywood depictions of the South of the last quarter century.
Superior biopic with an unforgettable performance by Sissy Spacek
A rousing musical biopic that is a cut above its peers.
This uplifting drama, based on Loretta Lynn's autobiography, shows how her marriage kept changing to accommodate her career as the First Lady of country music.
In a time before the TV music channels made star biographies into such a formulaic joke, Coal Miner's Daughter was the real deal.
Audience Reviews for Coal Miner's Daughter
Super Reviewer
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- Loretta Lynn: [waving fists in a full length gown, coming off stage] All I could hear was them dad-burn drums, a-beatin' in my ears!
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- Loretta Lynn: [performing for her children, but her sons are wrestling] You boys quit fightin' and listen to me sing!
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- Loretta Lynn: If you boys don't settle down on this porch I'm gonna have to whup you!
- Loretta and Mooney's Child: That's right?
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- Radio Station Manager: You're number fourteen, nationwide!
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- Loretta Lynn: Doolittle; are you leavin'?
- Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn: [come back in the house] Naw, Loretta; *I* ain't leavin'.
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- Patsy Cline: [Loretta and Doolittle are fighting in the parking lot] Get in the car, Loretta! Get in the damn car and drive, Charlie!
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Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones put on great performances as do the others in the movie. Sissy Spacek sings all the songs herself and does a great job as Loretta Lynn. If you like biographical movies, you need to see "The Coal Miner's Daughter." NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2000 of this great film from the year I was born. Surprised its average rating here on Flixster isn't higher. Would like to see it again, even though I'm not a fan of much old (i.e., older than 80's) country.