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1980 |
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MUSICAL
BIOPIC
DRAMA
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
C |
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| Length: |
125 |
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Country singer Loretta Lynn (Sissy Spacek, pictured) emerges from Kentucky to become a superstar.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Michael Apted's film may skate over the less savoury aspects of Lynn's later life - drugs, nervous breakdwns, etc - but as a rags-to-riches story it works beautifully, and Tom Rickman's script is perceptive about the effects of fame on an unsophisticated person. Spacek gives an extraordinary, touching performance: she ages from 13 to 40, and does her own singing. Tommy Lee Jones and Beverley D'Angelo (who also sings her own songs) are impressive. Apted displays a great sense of period and place.
"The film done us proud."
(Loretta Lynn)
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, Beverley D'Angelo 
