Covering the years from 1956 to her death in 1963, the story of country singer Patsy Cline (Jessica Lange in an Oscar nominated performance). Besides her career, the film focuses on her turbulent marriage to Charlie Dick (Ed Harris). Directed by Karel Reisz (SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING). Reisz's biopic film on Isadora Duncan, ISDAORA (1968), was one of the better film biographies and here he alleviates the tedium and predictability inherent in most movie bios by concentrating on the relationship between Cline and her spouse. So the movie becomes a tempestuous love story instead of the usual rags to riches movie bio. There are two killer performances by Lange and Harris as Cline and Dick that carry the movie and make it a must see. There are the usual inaccuracies evident in the genre whether out of laziness or dramatic license, I don't know. Lange doesn't sing but lip syncs to Patsy Cline's recordings. With Ann Wedgeworth (very good as Cline's mother), John Goodman, David Clennon and P.J. Soles.
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