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Coal Miner's Daughter

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Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 film directed by Michael Apted, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones.A biopic dramatizing the early life and rise to fame of pioneering Country Music star Loretta Lynn, the film opens with Loretta Webb (Spacek) as a 14-year-old girl in Kentucky's coal-mining country in 1946. Doolittle Lynn (Jones), a charismatic rapscallion, comes home from World War II, falls in love with teenaged Loretta, and marries her over the objections of her parents. They temporarily separate but reunite before Doolittle moves the family to Washington state, where he gets work on a ranch. Doolittle notes his wife's singing talent and buys her a cheap guitar. Doolittle then notes the exceptional music his wife is producing with said guitar and pushes her into playing for audiences at dance halls and honky tonks. When Loretta proves herself exceptionally good at that as well, Doolittle keeps pushing, getting Loretta to make a record—and her march to superstardom begins.Levon Helm, best known as drummer and singer for The Band, makes his acting debut as Loretta's father Ted. Beverly D'Angelo plays Patsy Cline, who became close friends with Loretta. Sissy Spacek and Beverly D'Angelo did all their own singing for the movie.
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Title Drop: Loretta is announced by an MC as "the coal miner's daughter" in the last scene, right before she sings the title song.
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Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!
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Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: How Loretta's parents react to her going out with Doo. She apparently extends the same discipline to her own children.
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Anachronism Stew: While Loretta's being examined at the doctor's office just before finding out that she's pregnant the doctor reminisces about her seeing him previously to receive measles shots in real life the measles vaccine didn't exist until 1963. One of the miners in the opening scene uses the term "New York minute", which wasn't used for another decade.
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Handbag of Hurt: In self-defense, Loretta smacks Doo with her purse and breaks his finger.
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Dead Guy Junior: Loretta names one of her newborn daughters after Patsy Cline, her close friend and idol who had died in a plane crash.
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Lethal Chef: Doo and Loretta first meet when he tries a pie that Loretta made, where she ended up using salt instead of sugar.
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While Loretta's being examined at the doctor's office just before finding out that she's pregnant the doctor reminisces about her seeing him previously to receive measles shots in real life the measles vaccine didn't exist until 1963.
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Teen Pregnancy: Loretta has her first baby at just 14 years old and has three more kids before age 19.
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Amazing Freaking Grace
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Amazing Freaking Grace: Played at the funeral of Loretta's father, in the "lining-out" call-and-response style common in Appalachian churches.
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Three Chords and the Truth
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Three Chords and the Truth: "It ain't got but three chords", says Loretta at her first recording session, and this is true of most of her simple musical style.
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Company Town: Butcher's Hollow, KY is this. After Ted Webb collects his paycheck from the coal mining company, he goes straight to the company store to spend it.
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Music Stories: Girl from hillbilly country gets famous!
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Auto Erotica: Loretta catches Doolittle canoodling in the backseat of a car with another woman. In another scene Doolittle and Loretta pull off to the side of the road for sex.
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Loretta tells Patsy that she's pregnant again and that she isn't sure she wants the baby, as she's already had several babies and she and Doolittle are in a rough patch in their marriage. Patsy says no, she should be excited, and that's it for any thoughts of Loretta getting an abortion.
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Played With. Early in Doolittle and Loretta's marriage, one of the complaints Doo has about her is that she's not good at any of her "wifely duties", including how she's bad at sex, but given how she's barely out of her teenage years (he married her when she was 15), he's the one who comes across as ludicrous to the audience, but since the movie is set in The '40s his complaint is seen as reasonable and he even kicks her out of the house due to it.
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Hillbilly Moonshiner: When the local Hillbilly Moonshiner tries to enlist Doolittle to help him raid a rival moonshiner's stock, Doolittle refuses. This proves wise when the hillbilly moonshiner is shot and killed.
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Autobiographical Role: Country music stars Roy Acuff and Ernest Tubb and country comedienne Minnie Pearl have cameos as themselves, after Loretta hits the big time.
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Video Credits: Clips from the movie at the end as the names of the main players come up on the screen.
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P.O.V. Cam: Seen from the POV of a man who shoots a rival moonshiner in the chest for stealing his stock.
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Marital Rape License: When 14-year-old virgin Loretta panics on their wedding night, Doolittle rapes her.
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The Film of the Book: Screenwriter Tom Rickman adapted Loretta Lynn's 1976 memoir of the same name.
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Haven't You Seen X Before?: When Loretta meets Patsy Cline, Cline says "You act like you ain't never seen a glamorous country music singer before." The joke is that Cline is laid up in a hospital and bandaged, with two black eyes, after being injured in a car wreck.
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Mama Bear: Patsy enters this territory when she witnesses Doo hit Loretta in public. She immediately comes to Loretta’s aid and smacks the crap out of Doo. Several passersby witness this and one even yells, “Give ‘em hell, Patsy!”
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Percussive Maintenance: Loretta kicks her washing machine when it starts to stall, and the washing machine sputters back to life.
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Innocent Swearing: When they're buying baloney at a store, Doo says that baloney makes you horny. Supremely innocent Loretta asks what "horny" means, whereupon Doo cackles with laughter and picks her up. Unfortunately Loretta takes this to mean that "horny" means having fun and making mischief ("cutting up"), so when she's interviewed on the radio she starts talking about how baloney makes her husband horny, much to Doo's horror.
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Younger Than They Look
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Younger Than They Look: Doolittle mentions this as a side effect of coal mining; he doesn't want "be an old man at 40."
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Conversation Cut: Doolittle, who isn't happy with life anyway as he's stuck mining coal, comes home and starts complaining about how Loretta is bad at cooking and bad at cleaning house and bad at sex. He stalks out to the porch and Loretta says "Are you leavin'?" Doolittle pauses and then says "No, I ain't leavin'", and the film cuts to Loretta walking home after Doolittle has thrown her out of the house.
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Dances and Balls: Loretta and Doolittle's romance starts at a town ball.
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Would Hit a Girl: Doolittle doesn't do this as a habit but he does smack Loretta a couple of times when he gets pissed off, like when he's angry about being pushed aside as her manager.
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Titled After the Song: Technically it's titled after Loretta Lynn's memoir Coal Miner's Daughter, which itself was titled after her Signature Song "Coal Miner's Daughter".
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