After some time, Loretta makes an occasional appearance on local radio.īy the time Loretta turns 25, Norm Burley, the owner of Zero Records, a small Canadian record label, hears Loretta sing during one of her early radio appearances. The family moves to northern Washington State, where Doo works in the forest industry and Loretta sings occasionally at local honky-tonks on weekends. In 1948, at the age of 15, Loretta marries 22-year-old Oliver "Mooney" (aka Doo, short for Doolittle) Lynn, becoming a mother of four by the time she is 19. In 1945, 13-year-old Loretta Webb is one of eight children of Ted Webb, 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"). The film is considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in the United States National Film Registry in 2019. At the 38th Golden Globe Awards, it garnered four nominations and won two Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actress (for Spacek). The film received seven nominations at the 53rd Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, with Spacek winning Best Actress. The film grossed $67.18 million in North America against a budget of $15 million, becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 1980. The critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes calls it "a solidly affecting story". Universal Pictures released Coal Miner's Daughter theatrically on March 7, 1980. The soundtrack reached the top 40 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. The film's soundtrack featured all Lynn's hit singles which were all sung by Spacek as well as Patsy Cline's " Sweet Dreams" sung by D'Angelo. Production for the film began in March 1979, and Lynn herself chose Spacek to portray her on screen after seeing a photograph of her, despite being unfamiliar with her films.
Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, and Minnie Pearl make cameo appearances as themselves.Ī film on Lynn's life was intended to be made since the release of the biography. Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm are featured in supporting roles.
Based on Lynn's 1976 biography of the same name by George Vecsey, the film stars Sissy Spacek as Lynn. It follows the story of country music singer Loretta Lynn from her early teen years in a poor family and getting married at 15 to her rise as one of the most influential country musicians. (equivalent to $40.3 million in 2020) Ĭoal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 American biographical musical film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay written by Tom Rickman.