Sissy Spacek won a much-deserved Oscar for her lead in this entertaining biography of ... more
country-music legend Loretta Lynn. British director Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist) brings fine texture to the Kentucky backwoods section of the film, where the ...
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Sissy Spacek gives an extraordinary performance as Loretta Lynn in a drama that reveals ... more
the life of the Queen of Country Music. Tommy Lee Jones is Loretta's ambitious husband Mooney who takes Loretta's ambitious husband Mooney who takes Loretta away fr...
Sissy Spacek won a much-deserved Oscar for her lead in this entertaining biography of ... more
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At eighteen the mother of four children and busy housewife Loretta Lynn (Sissy Spacek) ... more
still finds time to write and sing songs at small fairs and local honky-tonks. Recognizing her raw talent and huge potential her ambitious husband Mooney (Tommy Le...
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Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
The Plot
First Daughter is a romantic comedy film released in 2004. It stars Katie Holmes as Samantha Mackenzie, the president's daughter who enrols at a college and develops a relationship with another student at the college called James. Samantha feels she is given a new sense of freedom during her time away from the White House, and the advantages and disadvantages of her college life and education.
She wants to experience life without all the media attention and the pressures of living at the white house. No matter what she does though she always seems to upset her father with bad publicity.
She basically wants to live a normal teenage life; instead she is hounded by the media, and is constantly guarded by bodyguards. Despite all this she manages to meet a lad called James and they spend a lot of time together ...
Advantages: Funny, good story Disadvantages: Is a bit predictable
If your looking for a teenage movie (if your a teenager or not!) or just a good present for the girls then this is it!
The story is about Samantha McKenzie (Katie Holmes) and her life growing up. She has a pretty normal life apart from the fact she is the U.S. presidents daughter!
Based on Chelsea Clinton, it follows Sam through her teenage life, living with being the centre of jokes and getting picke don because of her clothes.
The narrator takes you through different, parts of her young life until she gets to her after leaving school. She is desperate to have a 'normal' college experience.
Being followed everywhere and having to have at least 6 body gurds all the time however are making this very difficult. There is a very emotional moment where Sam is leaving her mum and dad for the first time. They however are ...
Advantages: Katie Holmes Is Very Good Disadvantages: Everything Else Imaginable, Tedious, Long, Silly
Samantha Mackenzie has all eyes on her, as the Presidents daughter her clothes, makeup, actions and school grades are constantly critiqued by vicious journalists or pompous fashion gurus and she longs to be a 'normal girl.' In a bid for some normality, she enrolls in a posh University, where she is followed by Bodyguards and protection and continually made an example of her. It isn't until her feisty roommate encourages her to have more fun that she loosens up, and falls head over heels in love with James Lansome. First Daughter is Samantha's story of self discovery, but in a world of constant double identities and national responsibility it isn't an easy ride.
First Daughter is one of those movies that never actually go anywhere, it thinks it has something to say and fools its audience for a while, but then it stumbles ...
The story of Loretta Lynn, a married woman with four kids who sings and writes her own songs. She is given the chance to make a record and goes on to find fame and fortune.
Best Actress In A Leading Role 1981 (Sissy Spacek)
DVD Description
The story of Loretta Lynn, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER charts the rise of the queen of country music from her upbringing in backwoods Appalachia to stardom at the Grand Ole Opry. One of eight children, she married at age 13 and was a mother of four by age 20. Shy and naive, she was pushed into music by her husband Doolittle--who gave her a guitar instead of a ring for their wedding--in what was to be a career that also tracked her complicated relationship with this man. His strengths helped her create numerous hit singles, but his weaknesses inspired such immortal songs as "You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man." Sissy Spacek won an Oscar for her virtuoso performance, mimicking Lynn's voice nearly perfectly, while Beverly D'Angelo solidly impersonates Patsy Cline (unlike other music biographies, this film features both actors using their own voices in the singing scenes). Country music legends Ernest Tubb and Minnie Pearl also make cameo appearances. For director Michael Apted, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER is one in a series of films (AGATHA, GORILLAS IN THE MIST, NELL) he has made about strong, eccentric women.
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