Movies

April, 1980

All the ingredients of a standard star-is-born biography are present in Coal Miner's Daughter, yet the surprising, poignant movie based on the book about country-music queen Loretta Lynn is something pretty special. First, Sissy Spacek makes a quantum leap to major stardom as an actress and a singer, for she performs a big batch of Loretta's own songs--many of them recorded live in a strong down-home style that sounds exactly right without sounding like an imitation and should help revive intere...