Coal Miner's Daughter (film)
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| Directed by | Michael Apted |
| Produced by | Bernard Schwartz |
| Screenplay by | Tom Rickman |
| Based on | Autobiography by Loretta Lynn George Vecsey |
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Sissy Spacek Tommy Lee Jones Beverly D'Angelo Levon Helm |
| Music by | Owen Bradley |
| Cinematography | Ralf D. Bode |
| Edited by | Arthur Schmidt |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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125 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million |
| Box office | $67,182,787 |
| Coal Miner's Daughter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
| Released | March 7, 1980 |
| Recorded | 1980 Bradley's Barn (Mt. Juliet, Tennessee) |
| Genre | Country |
| Label | MCA Nashville |
| Producer | Owen Bradley |
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Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 American biographical film which tells the story of country music singer Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek as Loretta, a role that earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Tommy Lee Jones as Loretta's husband Mooney Lynn, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm also star. The film was directed by Michael Apted.
Levon Helm (drummer for the rock group The Band) made his screen debut as Loretta's father, Ted Webb. Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, and Minnie Pearl all make cameo appearances as themselves.
The film was adapted from Loretta Lynn's 1976 autobiography written with George Vecsey. At the time of the film's release, Loretta was 48 years old.
In 1945, 13-year-old Loretta Webb is one of eight children of Ted Webb (Levon Helm), a Van Lear coal miner raising a family with his wife in the midst of grinding poverty in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky (pronounced by locals as "Butcher Holler").
In 1948, at the age of 15, she marries 22-year-old Oliver Vanetta Lynn, Jr. (aka "Doolittle", "Doo" or "Mooney") (Tommy Lee Jones), becoming a mother of four by the time she is 19 (and a grandmother by age 29). Now known as Loretta Lynn, she begins singing the occasional songs at local honky-tonks on weekends as well as making the occasional radio appearance.
When she is 25, Norm Burley—the owner of Zero Records, a small Canadian record label—hears her sing during one of her early Northern Washington radio appearances. Burley gives the couple the money needed to travel to Los Angeles to cut a demo tape from which her first single, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl," would be made. After returning home from the sessions, Doo suggests that they go on a promotional tour to push the record. He shoots his own publicity photo for her, and spends many late nights writing letters to show promoters and to radio disc jockeys all over the South. After Loretta receives an emergency phone call from her mother telling her that her father had died, she and Doo hit the road with records, photos, and their children. The two embark on an extensive promotional tour of radio stations across the South.
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