Coal Miner's Daughter

Sissy Spacek won the Best Actress Oscar® playing country legend Loretta Lynn in this gritty biography charting her life from Appalachian poverty to Grand Ole Opry stardom, followed by a breakdown and a comeback. It’s as much a portrait of a marriage as an entertainment success story, as director Michael Apted and writer Thomas Rickman focus on the relationship of Lynn and her husband (Tommy Lee Jones), who weds her when she is 13, gives her a used guitar a few years later and oversees her early career. Beverly D'Angelo costars as Patsy Cline.