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Summary: Loretta Lynn's Unforgetable Story
Review: This dvd reminds you why we all love Loretta Lynn. It is the extraordinary story of an individual who went from rags to riches and never forgot her roots. The screen version of Loretta Lynn comes to life with Sissy's portrayal. She makes you forget it is a movie and instead you feel like you are just spending some time with Loretta Lynn. This movie is a part of the tapestry of Country Music, and it is a vibrant thread. One of Tonmmy Lee Jones' first big movies, and he shines in it. Extras include an excellent interview with the first lady of country music Loretta Lynn. This is a must have for any true country fan.
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Summary: WRONG! Response to Theodore John Illenberg to comment..
Review: ....about Gary Busey not singing in The Buddy Holly Story.
He DID sing on all of the tracks in the movie...not only that but Don Stroud & Charles Martin Smith played their own instruments. This is a well known fact. Busey even mentions this on the commentary track on the DVD. He chose not to lipsync.
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Summary: Buy this DVD
Review: This is an excellent DVD. As well as giving us the widescreen version, you also get interviews with Sissy Spacek and Loretta Lynn. I'm very pleased with this edition!
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Summary: Sissy Shines as The Coal Miner's Daughter
Review: At long last, "Coal Miner's Daughter" has come to DVD. This biopic tells the tale of country music legend Loretta Lynn, spanning her early years of poverty in Butcher Holler, Kentucky through her steady rise to fame and fortune to become the queen of country music. The film details the highs and lows of that journey with both heartfelt humor and pathos and contains incredible performances from the entire cast.One need not be a fan of Loretta or country music to enjoy this film. Director Michael Apted has crafted a movie of depth, detail and emotion, especially in the early scenes which depict Loretta's early years growing up dirt poor in the Appalachian mountains. Apted's attention to detail allows the viewer to really understand what it was like to grow up in such an impoverished environment. Apted obviously respected the material he was working with and does it justice. Sissy Spacek, as Loretta, is simply superb. Earning a well deserved Oscar for this performance, she is never less than captivating. Starting out as a shy, naive 14 year old, then slowly building confidence and self-awareness, to emotionally crumbling under pressures to great for her to handle, Sissy is completely believable in all stages of Lynn's life. On top of it all, Sissy does her own singing in the film! This is one talented woman. Tommy Lee Jones is equally compeling as Mooney, Lynn's husband, who's confidence in his young bride started it all. Jones does a great job displaying Mooney's determination, frustrations and insecurities. Also of note is Beverly D'Angelo's performance as Patsy Cline. Although she has very little screen time in the film, her impact in the overall film is undeniable. She too gives a pitch perfect performance and does all her own singing as well. Alas both Jones and D'Angelo were overlooked when the Oscar nominations were announced that year. (They were both robbed!!) These three powerhouse performances are backed up with an equally strong supporting cast, including Levon Helms and Phyllis Boyens (both of whom where not actors by trade) as Loretta's parents. The DVD provides extras such as a commentary track with Apted and Spacek (not the best commentary track I've heard but worth a listen if you like that sort of thing), interviews with both Tommy Lee Jones and Loretta Lynn (worth a peek) and a totally useless clip of President Bush (Sr. that is) saluting the AFI. He mentions the title of Coal Miner's Daughter once in his speech. That warranted it's inclusion in the DVD!!?? Alas there are no deleted scenes or "making of" documentaries which I enjoy watching but I don't want to sound like "a big ol' bear a growlin" so I won't complain.
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Summary: Often imitated, never duplicated . . .
Review: . . . and, frankly, usually never even approached, in terms of quality. *Coal Miner's Daughter* set the bar very high indeed for the biopic. Most likely this was because the subject of the film, Loretta Lynn, was deeply involved in the project: it was based on her biography; Sissy Spacek actually lived with Lynn for almost a year prior to shooting; and Lynn basically kept a close watch on the proceedings. Loretta Lynn is a tough broad. If director Michael Apted had had any thoughts of making this a "sensational" piece, Lynn disabused him of the notion rather early, I would imagine. Hence, there's absolutely no salaciousness, no untoward intrusions of privacy, no "creative license". This is the story that Loretta Lynn wanted told, and by God, it got told. Needless to say, this way of making motion pictures, so uncharacteristic of the usual Hollywood method of cheapening everything for the sake of "entertainment", makes for a compulsively watchable experience. Story-wise, it's not terribly unique: it's the old rags-to-riches formula. But what rags, and what riches! The key to the movie's success is in the details: from the newspaper, serving as wallpaper, glued onto the walls of Loretta's home in the Kentucky "holler" . . . to the old pre-War washing-machine on the porch that Spacek kicks into gear while learning to play the guitar . . . to the baloney sandwiches consumed during Spacek's and Jones' journey from one radio station to the next in Tennessee . . . to the first nervous performance at the Grand Old Opry . . . to the luxuriantly appointed tour bus replete with "LORETTA LYNN" in elegant cursive writing on the side. Most impressively, Spacek does her own singing in the movie, echoing Lynn's style while avoiding overt mimicry. And Beverly D'Angelo is a revelation as Patsy Cline. A noted singer in her own right, D'Angelo arguably out-sings the real Cline in the numbers featured here. While this MIGHT be both Spacek's and D'Angelo's finest hours, it is almost CERTAINLY Tommy Lee Jones' finest hour. He plays Lynn's husband "Doo" with not only utter conviction, but with complete familiarity, as well. All in all, *Coal Miner's Daughter* remains the gold standard in the biopic genre.
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE! TERRIBLE DVD!
Review: Coal Miner's Daughter is my favorite movie of all time. I was so thrilled to finally see it coming out on DVD. However I was very dissapointed to see that it was not in Dolby surround sound. Also, every time I stop the movie and turn off my DVD player, when I turn it on again, it will only play with the commentary turned on, and with some foreign language CC turned on! I have to actually eject the DVD, and turn off the player and turn it back on to get it back to normal. Using the Language option on the menu doesn't work. Including deleted scenes would have been great too! ...
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Summary: I didn't want to like it, but danged if I didn't.
Review: I was about 13, my friend asked if i wanted to go and see a drive in movie, his parents were taking him, a movie i thought, coool. I still remember we had to lay under a blanket and appear younger for a discount. But as for the movie, when i saw the title. as a teen, i was just oh god, my parents country fantasies all wrapped up on film. But By the end of this movie, i must say, i found a true classic. I don't want to give story details, for those are best left untold, and seen for yourselves. But Please do watch, i think this is a film well worth seeing.
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Summary: AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: My whole family thinks that I'am crazy,but this is one of the greatest movies ever made. I love this movie! I was only 10 when it came out and never saw it in the theater. Through the magic of cable my love affair began. I truely began to belive that Sissy Spacek was Loretta Lynn, her signing was wonderful.I don't like country but i love Coal Minners Daughter!!!
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Summary: Coal Miner's Daugther DVD
Review: The picture is beautiful, the interview with Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones is great, the commentary with Michael Apted and Sissy Spacek is funny and informative, the thing with Bush Sr. is STUPID, it's a small mention of CMD at an AFI gathering. I gave the DVD 4 stars because I thought there's a couple more things they could have done with this DVD. They could have included some deleted scenes. They could have included all the songs left off of the original soundtrack and maybe some words from Beverly D'Angelo would have been cool too. I buy DVDs because of the extras and that's what I expect from them.
However, this is one of the best movies of all time in my opinion and it should have gotten a little more hoopla for it's release on DVD and Tommy Lee Jones should have gotten every award that Sissy Spacek did.
Now, let's have a brand new soundtrack reissued with all the songs that Sissy recorded while filming this movie. Thanks for a great DVD! Bobby in Portland, TN
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Summary: Incredible Movie
Review: This is one of my favorite movies of all time...thank goodness FINALLY its on DVD and WIDESCREEN so we can finally see the whole movie as it was in the theaters.
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