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Coal Miner’s Daughter (1981). The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.

This is just such a solid, straight forward bio pic made all the more memorable for Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones’ tremendous performances. Both of them lend real charisma and chemistry to an already good script, that it really has these moments of genuine greatness. It stumbles occasionally, particularly in the way it skirts around some of the darker themes, but there’s so much that’s good here it’s easy to forgive. 8/10.