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Billy Dean, Dolly Parton, John Terry

This thoroughly enjoyable 1999 television movie is an appropriately understated vehicle for country superstar Dolly Parton. Though a limited actress, Parton's key role as a saloon singer with suppre...( read more  read more... )ssed ambitions makes for a perfect fit, neither overextending her lean thespian gifts nor inadvertently mocking her range. Parton sings, of course, yet even the hillbilly angel within yields to the script's focused tale of a love triangle involving underrated singer-songwriter Leanna (Parton), her longtime manager and boyfriend Hank (an outstanding performance by John Terry), and a restless musician (Billy Dean). Veteran director Richard A. Colla (Fuzz, Battlestar Galactica) approaches the material with grown-up sensitivity and understanding. As Jean Renoir said, everyone has their reasons, and that's certainly the case with these good people on screen. A subplot concerning Leanna's psychological mistreatment in youth by a wacked-out father is an unnecessary and redundant character note, but other than that misstep, Blue Valley Songbird is a pure pleasure. --Tom Keogh

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Unrated, 91 min.

Directed by: Richard A. Colla

Release Date: November 1, 1999

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DVD Release Date: July 3, 2001

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  • lillelulla
    October 28, 2008
    lillelulla
    Fantastic, remarkable, beautiful, breathtaking.
  • nelwingrant07
    May 26, 2008
    nelwingrant07
    This is my personal Fav film of all time
  • unlikelyangel18
    July 25, 2007
    unlikelyangel18
    I love it .. just love it
  • dollyrocksu3v3ryday
    February 15, 2007
    dollyrocksu3v3ryday
    this movie is the best movies of the best movies it is so awsome!
  • SarahJoyFrost
    December 11, 2006
    SarahJoyFrost
    i would like to see this
  • brianpark08
    December 10, 2006
    brianpark08
    Waste of TIME!! Very Weak movie, DO NOT WATCH, if you do end up watching it, side effects may include: Suicide, murder ramapages, road ramapage, any kinds of ways of harming yourself, and many others...

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