Coal Miner's Daughter

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (14 reviews)

  • 80% of users liked it
    (35,634 ratings)

Loretta Lynn was one of the first female superstars in country music and remains a defining presence within the genre; with her strong, clear, hard-country voice and tough, no-nonsense songs about husbands who cheat and wives who weren't about to be pushed around, Lynn introduced a feminist… More

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PG,
Directed By
Written By
Thomas Rickman
Genres
Musical & Performing Arts, Drama
In Theaters
Mar 7, 1980 Wide
MCA Universal Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    A thoughtful, endearing film charting the life of singer Loretta Lynn from the depths of poverty in rural Kentucky to her eventual rise to the title of 'queen of country music'.

  • Geoff Andrew, Time Out

    Highly conventional stuff, but lovingly constructed to produce unremarkable but heart-warming entertainment.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    The movie isn't great art, but it has been made with great taste and style; it's more intelligent and observant than movie biographies of singing stars used to be.

  • Heather Boerner, Common Sense Media

    Loretta Lynn's tough but heartwarming biopic.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Though a classic rags to riches saga, this biopic of Loretta Lynn doesn't fall victim to cliches, and benefits immensely from the astonishingly authentic turn from Sissy Spacek, who does her own singing; even real-life singer Lynn liked the picture

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jason O


    My aunt and cousin were watching "The Coal Miner's Daughter" and I wasn't really wanting to watch it. There wasn't anything else to do, so I watched it. It was actually a pretty good movie. It tells the biography of Loretta Lynn all the way from how she… More

  • Red L


    Movie's OK. I would probably rate it higher if I could stand country music.

  • jay n


    sissy and tommy lee are both very very good but the film could have used a little editing.

  • Cindy I


    I think Sissy Spacek was channeling Loretta Lynn somehow. Fantastic performance, especially since Sissy did all her own singing, 25 years before Jamie Foxx and Joaquin Phoenix. Great movie.

  • Cameron J


    I thought this was the crazy religious nut's sheltered and dangerously telepathic daughter, but okay, whatever, I guess I'll run with it. Even over thirty years later, much less two years later, people are still having trouble looking as Sissy Spacek and not thinking of… More

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