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''Coal Miner's Daughter'' is a 1980 biographical film which tells the story of country music legendary singer Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek as Loretta, a role that earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Tommy Lee Jones as Loretta's husband Mooney Lynn, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm also star. The film was directed by Michael Apted.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=IMDB: Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) )〕 Levon Helm (drummer for the rock group The Band) made his screen debut as Loretta's father, Ted Webb. Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, and Minnie Pearl all make cameo appearances as themselves. The film was adapted from Loretta Lynn's 1976 autobiography written with George Vecsey. At the time of the film's release, Loretta was 48 years old. ==Synopsis== In 1945, 13-year-old Loretta Webb is one of eight children belonging to Ted Webb (Levon Helm), a Van Lear coal miner raising a family with his wife despite grinding poverty in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky (pronounced by locals as "Butcher Holler"). In 1948, at the age of 15, she marries 22-year-old Oliver Vanetta (Doolittle) "Mooney" Lynn (Tommy Lee Jones), becoming a mother of four by the time she is 19 (and a grandmother by age 29). Now known as Loretta Lynn, she begins singing the occasional songs at local honky-tonks on weekends as well as making the occasional radio appearance. When she is 25, Norm Burley—the owner of Zero Records, a small Canadian record label—hears her sing during one of her early Northern Washington radio appearances. Burley gives the couple the money needed to travel to Los Angeles to cut a demo tape from which her first single, "Honky Tonk Girl," would be made. After returning home from the sessions, Mooney suggests that they go on a promotional tour to push the record. He shoots his own publicity photo for her, and spends many late nights writing letters to show promoters and to radio disc jockeys all over the South. After Loretta receives an emergency phone call from her mother telling her that her father had died, she and Mooney hit the road with records, photos, and their children. The two embark on an extensive promotional tour of radio stations across the South. En route, and unbeknownst to the pair, Loretta's first single, "Honky Tonk Girl," hits the charts based on radio and jukebox plays, and earns her a spot on the Grand Ole Opry. After seventeen straight weekly performances on the Opry, she is invited to sing at the Ernest Tubb Record Shop Midnite Jamboree after her performance that night. Country superstar Patsy Cline (Beverly D'Angelo), one of Loretta's idols, who had recently been hospitalized from a near-fatal car wreck, inspires Loretta to dedicate Patsy's newest hit "I Fall to Pieces" to the singer herself as a musical get-well card. Cline listens to the broadcast that night from her hospital room and sends her husband Charlie Dick down to Tubbs' record shop to fetch Loretta so the two can meet. A long and close friendship with Patsy Cline follows, and ends only by the tragic death of her idol in a plane crash on March 5, 1963. Extensive touring, keeping up her image, overwork, and a great deal of stress (from trying to keep her marriage and family together) cause her a nervous breakdown. However, after a year off at her ranch, in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, Loretta goes back on the road in fine form and becomes the First Lady of Country Music. Some months later Mooney drives Loretta at breakneck speed to a site for a proposed new house. They argue about where to put the bedrooms, and finally Mooney jokingly says that, if they can't settle the question about where to put the bedrooms, then he'll live in a treehouse at the top of a hill. Finally, in 1969, Loretta performs her hit, "Coal Miner's Daughter", to a sold-out audience, with the tune becoming her signature song. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coal Miner's Daughter (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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