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review Loretta's story 'Coal Miners honest and entertaining That Loretta Lynn's life works as a movie is also due in large part to excellent performances by Sissy Spacek (as Mrs. Lynn) and Tommy Lee Jones (as her husband, Mooney), to Englishman Michael Apted's detailed direction (his feel for the coal country grit in the early sequences especially) and to the script of Tom Rickman, a Kentuckian himself. Miss Spacek, who has made only a handful ol films "Three Women," "Badlands," among them), has become one of Hollywood's best young character actresses. In "Coal Miner's Daughter," she is the essence of Loretta Lynn without looking much like her or without copying exactly her singing style (Miss Spacek does her own singing). In addition, the role calls for her to age from a 13-year-old, naive bride to an adult woman trying to cope with her husband' drinking and philandering and with her guilt about being away from her six children.

Miss Spacek accomplishes her transitions subtly and delivers an af- "Coal Miner's Daughter, Page 10 cess segments suffering more from the old show business' cliches (i.e. career vs. family life, the grueling aspects of life on the road). Despite the absence of any unusually gripping drama in Mrs. Lynn's life (the dramatic highpoints include the deaths of her father and of her friend Patsy Cline, fights with her husband, an emotional breakdown), this very lack of momentous activity is refreshing in that Mrs.

Lynn's life is more in sync with the avera-geness of lives like ours, mostly happy lives only intermittently touched with pain. We have more empathy for this life than we would, say, for the life of a Marilyn Monroe or the life of a Lenny Bruce. FILM: Coal Miner's Daughter RATING: PG (ome profanity) PLAYING: Parkwood, Altamonte cinema The appeal of "Coal Miner'i Daughter" which is based on country singer Loretta Lynn's autobiography of the same name lies basically in its naturalness and, along with that, its honesty. And, unlike most film biographies of entertainers, this one is, indeed, entertaining interestingly, the earlier segments dealing with Mrs. Lynn's childhood in Kentucky coal country and with her marriage at the age of 13 are more fascinating than her subsequent rise to the top of the country music charts, the later suc- Singing star Sissy Spacek stars in the film based on the autobiography of country music star Loretta Lynn.

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