Sissy Spacek plays Loretta Lynn; Butcher Holler farm girl turned Grand Old Opry Singing Legend!
I've always had huge admiration for Spacek; she sure can act her way out of a paper bag. Admittedly, I just saw this movie for the first time today, and I thought she was very good in it. I kind of thought she was better in the first half though, after she gets all famous, for some odd reason, she start to become disinterested in her, perhaps it's because you know she's reached the top, and you can stop rooting for her.
Tommy Lee Jones is also dynamite as her husband, Doolittle. Jones seems to be playing the character one short level above being a total jerk, as I thought he was going to turn at every opportunity, but he just hung in there, though thick and thin. A great part.
As I said above (well, not really) the movie stretches on for a little too long. After she reaches fame and fortune. Now what? It goes blah, and we start to lose interest. The whole movie, when I think about it now, seems to pack a hell of a lot of stuff into it, with MOSTLY success, but mainly, again, in its first half.
I've always had huge admiration for Spacek; she sure can act her way out of a paper bag. Admittedly, I just saw this movie for the first time today, and I thought she was very good in it. I kind of thought she was better in the first half though, after she gets all famous, for some odd reason, she start to become disinterested in her, perhaps it's because you know she's reached the top, and you can stop rooting for her.
Tommy Lee Jones is also dynamite as her husband, Doolittle. Jones seems to be playing the character one short level above being a total jerk, as I thought he was going to turn at every opportunity, but he just hung in there, though thick and thin. A great part.
As I said above (well, not really) the movie stretches on for a little too long. After she reaches fame and fortune. Now what? It goes blah, and we start to lose interest. The whole movie, when I think about it now, seems to pack a hell of a lot of stuff into it, with MOSTLY success, but mainly, again, in its first half.