Young Tommy Lee Jones makes me feel like I ate a bunch of baloney.

P.S. Those guns!

P.P.S. Those stems!

This film should've been called "Being Quirky With Loretta Lynn." Can't say her life had much drama in comparison to singers in other bio-pics, but it still managed to entertain.

Solid biopic of the life of a country star. Sissy and Tommy were great. What furthermore impressed me were that Sissy and Beverly did their own singing.

COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER tells the story of country music legend Loretta Lynn from her days as a teenage on a small farm in a Kentucky holler and her teenage wedding to an older man, Dolittle Lynn. The film has a number of problems, particularly the script and direction. But those problems are overshadowed by two terrific performances -- Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones as Dolittle. They are great. Spacek won many awards, including the Oscar, and she indeed IS Loretta Lynn for roughly two hours. The fact that she does her own singing and we can close our eyes and hear Lynn's distinctive voice is extraordinary. While Spacek would actually be better in better films -- MISSING, CRIMES OF THE HEART, and IN THE BEDROOM (where she was robbed of an Oscar) -- she's still great here. It's a classic, even if a minor one.

"Perhaps one has to love Loretta Lynn to love this lukewarm film of her biography?"

Nothing out of the ordinary in the biopic department but Sissy Spacek's performance is amazing.

Coal Miner's Daughter is about as good as a contemporary biopic can be. With an extraordinary performance from Sissy Spacek, the Loretta Lynn story lives and becomes a funny, poignant, and powerful one.

Solid biopic of the life of a country star. Sissy and Tommy were great. What furthermore impressed me were that Sissy and Beverly did their own singing.

A traditional biopic that is captivating despite its conventions. The key to this film is the strong performances by Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones. They bring a rich complexity to the marriage of Loretta and Doolittle Lynn. It should also be noted that Beverly D'Angelo, gives a great cameo turn as the legendary Patsy Cline. While Michael Apted's direction plays it safe (i.e. never straying from the conventions of the genre), the film still manages to win you over by the end.

Turns out if I don’t have that much interest about the subject matter before going into a biopic about country music that I’ll have, pretty much, the same views 2 hours later.

Not much happens here other than kids and an occasionally drunk Tommy Lee Jones. The singing is done live apparently, who did it first Les Misérables?

Young Tommy Lee Jones makes me feel like I ate a bunch of baloney.

P.S. Those guns!

P.P.S. Those stems!

This film should've been called "Being Quirky With Loretta Lynn." Can't say her life had much drama in comparison to singers in other bio-pics, but it still managed to entertain.

COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER tells the story of country music legend Loretta Lynn from her days as a teenage on a small farm in a Kentucky holler and her teenage wedding to an older man, Dolittle Lynn. The film has a number of problems, particularly the script and direction. But those problems are overshadowed by two terrific performances -- Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones as Dolittle. They are great. Spacek won many awards, including the Oscar, and she indeed IS Loretta Lynn for roughly two hours. The fact that she does her own singing and we can close our eyes and hear Lynn's distinctive voice is extraordinary. While Spacek would actually be better in better films -- MISSING, CRIMES OF THE HEART, and IN THE BEDROOM (where she was robbed of an Oscar) -- she's still great here. It's a classic, even if a minor one.

Not the biggest fan of country music, but still enjoyed this film. Prob cause I'm a big Sissy Spacek fan and she had one hell of a performance. Story was pretty straight forward but wasn't over dramatized like in other biopics.