Sweet Dreams (1985)
Movie Info
Cast
as Patsy Cline
as Charlie Dick
as Hilda
as Randy
as Gerald
as Woodhouse
as Otis
as Wanda
as Singer
as Sylvia Hensley
as John Hensley
as Older Julie
as Baby Randy
as Madrine
as Arthur Godfrey
as Owen Bradley
as Big Bill Newley
as Announcer at Grand Ol' Opry
as Biker
as Old Man in Jail
as TV Technician
as Arthur Godfrey
as Bartender
as Cowboy Copas
as Hawkshaw Hawkins
as TV Technician
as Recording Engineer
as Girlfriend at Fair
as Girlfriend at Fair
as Sergeant
as Skip Cartmill
as Stone
as Baby Nurse
as Plastic Surgeon
as Surgery Nurse
as Guitarist
as Drummer
as Singer/Guitarist
as Singer/Guitarist
as Steel Guitarist
as Announcer at Grand Ol' Opry
as Pianist
as Guitarist
as Guitarist
as Opry Singer
as Opry Singer
as Opry Singer
as Opry Singer
as Guitarist
as Electric Guitarist
as Electric Guitarist
as Fiddler
as Bass in Patsy's Band
as Pianist
as Steel Guitar in Krackers Band
as Studio Musician
as Studio Musician
as Studio Musician
as Studio Musician
as Studio Musician
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Critic Reviews for Sweet Dreams
All Critics (19) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (1) | DVD (1)
"Sweet Dreams" doesn't draw you in the way, say, "Coal Miner's Daughter" (the story of Loretta Lynn) did, but it does entertain.
Lange and Harris, dangerously well-matched, give us lovers whom only success could sunder.
Clearly the coal miner's daughter's cousin by both birthright and ambition, Sweet Dreams upholds the family honor quite well.
The two main performances are excellent: Lange plays the singer without a hint of condescension to her dreams of 'a big house with yellow roses', while Harris is persuasively menacing, with an inventively foul mouth.
Miss Lange makes herself a perfect physical extension of the vibrant, changeable, enormously expressive woman who can be heard on these recordings.
There isn't the sense of a well-shaped structure in this movie; there's no clear idea of what the filmmakers thought about Patsy Cline, or what thoughts her life is supposed to inspire.
Audience Reviews for Sweet Dreams
Someone recently told me that Jessica Lange has trouble acting. This and Frances prove the opposite. Lange is tremendous as Patsy Cline.
Super Reviewer
jessica lange is wonderful as always and ed harris is fine also but the real gem performance is ann wedgeworth as the mother
Super Reviewer
Sweet Dreams Quotes
| Patsy Cline: | I can't stand it. It makes me wanna scream and claw my face. |
| Patsy Cline: | I can't stand it. Makes me want to scream and claw my face. |