COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER

Sissy Spacek in a brilliant performance in this biopic of country singer Loretta Lynn. The film follows the traditional showbiz trajectory from obscurity as the wife of a Kentucky hillbilly, through success, stardom and breakdown.

Director Michael Apted

Drama 1980, colour 124 mins, Universal

Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Jennifer Beasley

AA: Sissy Spacek AAN: Picture, Screenplay, Editing, Art Direction