Coal Miner's Daughter

Pros: great music and performances, outstanding biopic
Cons: 25 years old

I'm not a big fan of country music. Being out in the sticks always made me agoraphobic. But this flick, 25 years before Walk the Line, came about as close to making a convert out of me as anything ever could. Coal Miner's Daughter is the biopic of ...

Pros: Sissy, Tommy Lee and Beverly in early roles, Sissy won Academy Award. Great true story.
Cons: Left a great deal out about early days with Wilburn Brothers.

This review was originally posted on October 16, 2000. It has been re-written and re-posted. Enjoy. If you have read my top 10 all time best movies list ...

Pros: Spacek & D;Angelo - fantastic
Cons: .........

A wonderful biography of Loretta Lynn, from her humble beginnings in Butcher Hollow to her eventual success. Living for years - 14 I think! - as parttime momma and housekeeper, she leaves her family to begin her own life with husband, Dolittle Lynn.
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Pros: Wonderful biography, brilliantly acted
Cons: Country music - ewwww

First things first: I Am Not A Country Music Fan. That being said, this is one of my favorite movies. Don't ask me how a country music non-fan can be a fan of Loretta Lynn and a movie about her life. I simply can't explain it, but it is a fact.

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Pros: Fine performances
Cons: Expected a little more of the story.

I'm not exactly a country music fan. My tastes are a little more geared to rock. So if I can tell you to go watch "Coal Miner's Daughter," you must know it's pretty good.

As you probably know by now, this is a film biography of...

Pros: cast, direction, script, story
Cons: later scenes lose some continuity, facile character changes

Coal Miner's Daughter is an exemplary biography, with good performances, casting, and direction. The first two thirds of the film chronicles the rise of Loretta Lynn (Sissy Spacek) from an impoverished daughter of a coal miner to one of the...

Pros: Everything
Cons: nothing

Who will ever forget that famous song "Coal Miner's Daughter?" I love documentary movies that tell the true story of someone's life, especially someone I respect and adore. This movie has it all, music, love, friendship and real life...

Pros: Well-acted and intriguing
Cons: A little hokey, perhaps

Since I don't care for country music, I guess it's kind of odd that I have watched "Coal Miner's Daughter" over and over. Loretta Lynn is a woman to be admired, not only because she was able to overcome ignorance and poverty to become...

Pros: realistic
Cons: none

This movie is about famous country singer,Loretta Lynn.Her father was a coal miner.This is a really good movie.She gets married at fourteen years old.If you don't think her record career was good,then listen to this.Her record career skyrockets from...

Pros: The story, the music, the acting.
Cons: none

There was a time, not so many years ago, when Hollywood seemed fascinated with the lives and sometimes depths of singers such as Billie Holiday, Tina Turner, Ricky Valens, Jim Morrison, and Buddy Holly. Among the best of this genre was "Coal Miner's...

Pros: good country music
Cons: not all that accurate

Ok, I went and watched this movie as a kid EVERY Friday night for about 8 weeks straight. Why? Because I am from the same town as Loretta Lynn and they showed this movie for this length of time...maybe longer. The movie is pretty good, but isn't all that...

Pros: great movie for family
Cons: no cons

I was IN LOVE with this heartwarming movie "COAL MINERS DAUGHTER", from the first scene until the very last one! Loretta Lynn,played by none other than Sissy Spacek and Doolittle Lynn played by "Tommy Lee Jones".
The very first...

Pros: everything!
Cons: none!

COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER is one of the best movies ever, telling the story of Loretta Lynn's rise from poverty into the brutal world of country music fame. The performances are spell-binding, but the best thing about this movie is its heart. What a...

Pros: true story
Cons: I don't have any

Go buy or rent this movie. I've never seen a sweeter movie about a woman's life than this movie. Sissy Spacek portrays Loretta Lynn without a single flaw. Loretta Lynn marries young, to the love of her life, Doolittle. What a pair they are. She is so...

Pros: Great Country Music Movie/True Story
Cons: none

This movie is a true story about the life of Loretta Lynn played by Sissy Spacek. The part of her hubby Dolittle is played by Tommy Lee Jones. Both are great actors in the portrayl of this movie.

Loretta's dad is a coal-miner. He doesn't make...