In 1945, 13-year-old Loretta Webb is one of eight children of Ted Webb, a Van Lear coal miner raising a family with his wife in the midst of grinding poverty in 展开

• Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn
• Tommy Lee Jones as Doolittle Lynn
• Beverly D'Angelo as Patsy Cline
• Levon Helm as … 展开

Lynn personally chose Spacek to portray her, making the decision based on a photograph of the actress despite being unfamiliar with her films, a story Spacek recounts in a DVD audio commentary for the collector's edition of the film. Initially, Spacek was reluctant to … 展开

There are some events depicted in the film that are contrary to actual facts:
• Patsy Cline never owned a tour bus, although she had thought about purchasing one shortly before her death.
• Cline's plane crash did not occur early in the morning as the … 展开

Box office
In its opening weekend in the United States and Canada, Coal Miner's Daughter was number 1 at the box office, grossing $3.6 million in 796 theaters. The film grossed a total of $67.1 million in the United States and … 展开

• This film was released on LaserDisc on two separate releases. The first release was in May 1980, and the extended play version was released in July 1981. These releases were both made by MCA DiscoVision.
• The film was released in the VHS format in the 1980s … 展开

On May 10, 2012, at the Grand Ole Opry, Lynn announced that Zooey Deschanel was to portray her in a Broadway musical adaptation.
One episode of The Simpsons, titled "Colonel Homer", is based partly on this film. The episode also … 展开