Film

Coal Miner’s Daughter

Director
Michael Apted
Certificate
PG
Running Time
124 mins

Sissy Spacek bagged a well-deserved Oscar for her portrayal of country music star Loretta Lynn in future Bond director Michael Apted‘s 1980 biopic, adapted from Lynn’s autobiography. Mind you, it helps that her rags-to-riches life story is not unlike a country music song, taking in a battle with drugs, hordes of sprogs, a dodgy marriage to the amusingly named Doolittle Lynn (Tommy Lee Jones) and the death of her chum Patsy Cline (Beverly D’Angelo).

This screening launches the ‘shed’s August Sunday brunch music biopic season to complement the release of England Is Mine.

 

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By robin askew, Friday, Jul 21 2017

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