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www.moviemansguide.com - : Coal Miner’s Daughter is a very solid film, and Spacket’s performance is simply fantastic. This wasn’t a breakthrough film, so this Special Edition is probably as good as it’s going to get, and it’s a good effort. more...
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3.5/
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : The movie is mostly about Lynn's relationships with her husband, Mooney (played by Tommy Lee Jones), and her first close show-business friend and mentor, Patsy Cline (Beverly D'Angelo). Both of these relationships are developed in direct, understated, intelligent ways; we are spared, for example, a routine portrait of Mooney Lynn as Official Show Biz Husband, and given instead a portrait of a recognizable human being who is aggressive, confident, loving, and fallible. more...
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3/4
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www.epinions.com - : 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 nation's most successful country singers. more...
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66/1
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