Nashville Lady
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German title | Nashville Lady |
Original title | Coal Miner's Daughter |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1980 |
length | 125 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | Michael Apted |
script |
Thomas Rickman , Loretta Lynn and George Vecsey (autobiography) |
production | Bernard Schwartz |
music | Owen Bradley |
camera | Ralf D. Bode |
cut | Arthur Schmidt |
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Coal Miner's Daughter is a film of British director Michael Apted from the year 1980 . The biopic is based on an autobiography of the American Country - singer Loretta Lynn and was designed by the film studio Universal Pictures produced.
action
The film tells the life story of country singer Loretta Lynn. She spent her childhood as Loretta Webb with several sisters and brothers in a small mining community in Kentucky . At the age of thirteen she met Doolittle Mooney Lynn, a war veteran. The light-footed daredevil is the crush of all young girls, but woos Loretta. Doolittle asks Loretta's father for her hand, who makes him promise not to harm his daughter.
But shortly after the marriage, Doolittle beats his inexperienced wife and throws her out of his house. Nevertheless, Loretta returns to him, and the two leave Kentucky and go west to try their luck there. Soon they will have a farm, a small house and four children. Doolittle, who likes Loretta's singing, gives her a guitar for her wedding day. Later he persuades her to appear in a pub in the village. Encouraged by the success, her husband sees a new chance in life. He records a record with Loretta, takes advertising photos and sends her recordings to radio stations. When there is no reaction, the two leave their children with Loretta's mother and check out the radio stations personally. This enables them to enter the hit parade and jump into the Mecca of country music in Nashville .
Here Loretta befriends Patsy Cline , the biggest country star at the time. She becomes her best friend and they both go on tour together . Doolittle, who saw himself as her manager at the beginning of Loretta's career, is replaced by more professional people in the industry. He can't cope with the new situation, starts drinking, has affairs with young girls and beats Loretta. However, both keep coming back together. Doolittle decides to go back to work as a mechanic and take care of the children.
When Patsy Cline has a fatal accident in an airplane, Loretta loses her only friend. Loretta, who suffers from a severe headache and takes pills, finally begins to forget the lyrics of her songs until she collapses at a concert in front of 10,000 spectators. She breaks off the tour and returns to Kentucky. With her strength back, she makes a successful comeback .
background
The film is based on the autobiography of Loretta Lynn (* 1932), a great American country star. She is not only the mother of six children, but also became a grandmother at the age of 32. The last time Loretta Lynn made a comeback in her career was in 2004 . Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Beverly D'Angelo as Patsy Cline sing all the songs in this film and were not dubbed. Other country stars such as Ernest Tubb , Bill Monroe , Kitty Wells and Red Foley can be heard .
Reviews
- Roger Ebert , Chicago Sun-Times: "It [the movie] is warm, entertaining, funny, and arranged around this great Sissy Spacek performance, but it's essentially fairly familiar material (not that Loretta Lynn can be blamed, Horatio Alger wrote her life before she lived it). Film isn't a great art, but it was made with great taste and style; he is smarter and more alert than the usual biographies of celebrity singers. That makes it a real treasure ... even if we sometimes feel like we've seen it before. "
- film-dienst: “Sometimes you want the criticism to be more direct and courageous - but if you have ears to hear, you will still not miss it. Especially since Sissy Spacek has also mastered the musical side of her role very intensively with an appealingly fragile country organ between originality and decadence. In every moment you believe her role, be it the shocking naivete of the proletarian child-woman or the exasperated diva. What seems a bit flat and smooth about the story is largely made up for by the good acting performances and the more than pleasing directorial work. The balance between music film, Cinderella fairy tale and marriage problem play works well in the spirit of good Hollywood tradition. "
- Lexicon of the international film: "Though superficial and half-hearted in dealing with show business, thanks to the acting and musical presence of the leading actress, dignified entertainment for friends of country music."
Remarks
- According to rumors, Loretta Lynn fainted when she saw Levon Helm in make-up and miner's outfit. He was very much like Lynn's late father.
- When Sissy Spacek was nominated for a Grammy for her performance of the theme song in the Best Country Vocal Performance category, she competed with Loretta Lynn's sister, Crystal Gayle , who had been considered for If You Ever Change Your Mind . However, both Spacek and Gayle were subject to Anne Murray's Could I Have This Dance .
- In 1985 Patsy Cline received her own biography, Sweet Dreams , directed by the Czech - English director Karel Reisz . Their leading actress Jessica Lange , who, unlike Beverly D'Angelo in Nashville, did not interpret Lady Patsy Cline's songs herself, received an Oscar nomination a year later. Loretta Lynn did not appear in the film.
Awards
At the Academy Awards on March 31, 1981 in Los Angeles, Michael Apted's film was among the extended favorites for the trophy for the best film of the year with seven nominations alongside David Lynch's The Elephant Man and Martin Scorsese's boxer drama Like a Wild Bull (eight nominations each). The film biography had been awarded the Golden Globe for best comedy or musical two months earlier , and Sissy Spacek had also received the actor's award for her portrait of Loretta Lynn in the same category. At the Academy Awards ceremony , however, the triumphant triumph was Robert Redford's family drama A Completely Normal Family , which became the most successful film of the evening with four Academy Awards . However, Sissy Spacek was named "Best Actress. Spacek had previously received awards from the National Board of Review and the New York City and Los Angeles Film Critics Associations .
The work also received nominations from the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America. Leading actor Tommy Lee Jones and supporting actress Beverly D'Angelo received nominations at the Golden Globes, but had to admit defeat to Ray Sharkey ( Idolmaker ) and Mary Steenburgen ( Melvin and Howard ) respectively.
Oscar 1981
- Best Actress (Sissy Spacek)
- nominated in the categories
- Best movie
- Best adapted script
- Best equipment
- Best camera
- Best cut
- Best tone
- nominated in the categories
British Academy Film Award 1982
- nominated in the categories
- Best Actress (Sissy Spacek)
- Best tone
Golden Globe Award 1981
- Best Film - Comedy / Musical
- Best Actress - Comedy / Musical (Sissy Spacek)
- nominated in the categories
- Best Actor - Comedy / Musical (Tommy Lee Jones)
- Best Supporting Actress (Beverly D'Angelo)
- nominated in the categories
Further
- nominated in the category Best Editing - Feature Film
Directors Guild of America 1981
- nominated for best director
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award 1981
- Best Actress (Sissy Spacek)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1980
- Best Actress (Sissy Spacek)
- Best Actress (Sissy Spacek)
National Society of Film Critics Awards 1981
- Best Actress (Sissy Spacek)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1980
- Best Actress (Sissy Spacek)
- nominated in the category Best Adapted Screenplay - Drama
Inclusion in the National Film Registry 2019
literature
Lynn, Loretta Lynn; Vecsey, George: Loretta Lynn: Coal miner's daughter . Chicago: Regnery, 1976. ISBN 0-8092-8122-8 (English edition)
Web links
- Nashville Lady in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Coal Miner's Daughter atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roger Ebert: Coal Miner's Daughter. In: RogerEbert.com. January 1, 1980, accessed January 29, 2017 .
- ^ Nashville Lady. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 29, 2017 .