Coal Miner's Daughter (film)

Coal Miner's Daughter is a film by British director Michael Apted from the year 1980. The biopic is based on an autobiography of the U.S. country singer Loretta Lynn and was produced by the film studio Universal Pictures.

Action

The film tells the life story of country singer Loretta Lynn. She spent her childhood as Loretta Webb in a small mining town in Kentucky, with several sisters and brothers. At the age of thirteen, she met the veterans of World War II Doolittle Lynn Mooney know. The guessed from the web handsome man is the swarm of young girls, but woos Loretta. Doolittle asks Loretta's father for her hand, which relieves him of the promise of doing to his daughter no harm.

But shortly after marriage suggests Doolittle his inexperienced woman and throws her out of his house. Nevertheless, Loretta returns back to him, and the two leave Kentucky and go to the West, there to try their luck. Soon they have a farm, a small house and four children. Doolittle, the Loretta's singing like her, give her the wedding day a guitar. Later, he persuades her to a gig in a pub in the village. Encouraged by the success, sees her husband a new chance for life. He takes with Loretta on a plate, advertises photos and send their recordings to radio stations. As the reactions fail, the two let their children at Loretta's mother and rattle the radio station from personally. As such, they receive a good start in the hit list and the jump in the Mecca of country music to Nashville.

Here Loretta befriends Patsy Cline, the then-largest country star. This is her best friend and they both go on tour together. Doolittle, who understood at the beginning of Loretta's career as her manager is replaced by more professional people in the industry. He will drink with the new situation not ready, starts, has affairs with young girls and proposes Loretta. However, both wrestle together again. Doolittle decides to return to work as a mechanic and take care of the children.

As Patsy Cline died in an accident with an aircraft, Loretta loses her only friend. Loretta, who suffers from severe headaches and tablets increases, finally, the lyrics of their songs start to forget until it collapses at a concert in front of 10,000 spectators. She breaks from the tour and returned to Kentucky. Strength back, she manages a successful comeback.

Background

The film is based on the autobiography by Loretta Lynn ( born 1932 ), a major U.S. country star. Not only is she the mother of six children, but was already at the age of 32 years grandmother. Loretta Lynn experienced in her career recently in 2004 a renewed comeback. Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Beverly D' Angelo as Patsy Cline sing in this film all the songs themselves and were not synchronized. You can hear more country stars such as Ernest Tubb, Bill Monroe, Kitty Wells and Red Foley.

Reviews

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun- Times: " It (the film ) is warm-hearted, entertaining, funny and arranged around this great Sissy Spacek - performance, but it is essentially quite familiar material (not that Loretta Lynn can be accused of Horatio Alger have written their lives before they lived there ). The film is not great art, but it was done with great taste and style; he is smarter and more alert than the usual movie star biographies of singers. That makes him a true treasure ... even if we sometimes have the feeling that you 've seen it before. "
  • Filmdienst: " Sometimes one wishes criticism direct and courageous - but who has ears to hear, they will still not escape. Especially since Sissy Spacek mastered very intensive and the musical side of their role with attractive brittle Country organ between originality and decadence. At any moment one believes her role, be it the shocking naivety of the proletarian child - hag or the enervated diva. What may seem a little flat and smooth on the story, is largely compensated by the good performance and the actor more than agreeable directing. The balance between music film, Aschenbrödelmärchen and marriage problem piece works well in terms of good Hollywood tradition. "
  • Lexicon of international film: ". Though superficial and half-hearted in dealing with show business, but thanks to the theatrical and musical presence of the protagonist, tasteful entertainment for fans of country music "

Comments

  • According to rumors Loretta Lynn should have fainted when she saw Levon Helm with makeup and miner gear. He resembled Lynn's late father very much.
  • As Sissy Spacek was nominated for her performance of the title song in the Best Country Vocal Performance category for the Grammy Awards, she competed with Loretta Lynn's sister Crystal Gayle, who had been considered for "If You Ever Change Your Mind". However, both Spacek and Gayle subject Anne Murray ( "Could I Have This Dance" ).
  • In 1985, Patsy Cline Sweet Dreams with its own biopic, in the Czech- English director Karel Reisz directed. The actress Jessica Lange, those songs are not interpreted in contrast to Beverly D' Angelo himself, received a year later an Oscar nomination. Loretta Lynn did not appear in the film.

Awards

At the Academy Awards on March 31, 1981 in Los Angeles was one of Michael Apted's film with seven nominations alongside David Lynch's The Elephant Man and Martin Scorsese's boxing drama Raging Bull (eight nominations ) and the expanded group of favorites on the trophy for the best film of the year. The biopic had been two months earlier awarded the Golden Globe for Best Comedy or Musical and Sissy Spacek had received the Best Actor Award for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the same division. At the ceremony of the Academy Awards, but Robert Redford's family drama triumphed Ordinary People, which became four Oscars gained the most successful film of the evening. Sissy Spacek was, however, awarded as " Best Actress. Spacek had previously been honored with the prices of the National Board of Review and the film critics ' associations in New York and Los Angeles.

Furthermore, the work of nominations from the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America received. Lead actor Tommy Lee Jones and Supporting Actress Beverly D' Angelo received nominations at the Golden Globes, but had to Ray Sharkey ( Idolmaker - The dirty business of show business ) and Mary Steenburgen ( Melvin and Howard) to admit defeat.

Oscar 1981

  • Best Actress ( Sissy Spacek ) nominated in the categories Best Picture
  • Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Best equipment
  • Best Camera
  • Best Editing
  • Best Sound

British Academy Film Awards 1982

  • Nominated in the categories Best Actress ( Sissy Spacek )
  • Best Sound

Golden Globe Award 1981

  • Best Motion Picture - Comedy / Musical
  • Best Actress - Comedy / Musical ( Sissy Spacek ) nominated in the categories Best Actor - Comedy / Musical ( Tommy Lee Jones)
  • Best Supporting Actress ( Beverly D' Angelo )

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American Cinema Editors 1981

  • Nominated in the category Best Editing - Feature film

Directors Guild of America 1981

  • Nomininiert for Best Director

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award in 1981

  • Best Actress ( Sissy Spacek )

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1980

  • Best Actress ( Sissy Spacek )

National Board of Review 1980

  • Best Actress ( Sissy Spacek )

National Society of Film Critics Awards 1981

  • Best Actress ( Sissy Spacek )

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1980

  • Best Actress ( Sissy Spacek )

Writers Guild of America 1981

  • Nominated in the category Best Adapted Screenplay - Drama
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