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Movie Reviews of Sweet Dreams
Movie Review: Sweet Dreams
Summary: 4 Stars
This one is a real tear jerker, it comes highly recommend. Yet another great gift choiceMovie Review: Sweet Dreams
Summary: 4 Stars
Love this movie been trying to it on DVD for a while and thanks to Amazon I found it.Movie Review: PATSY'S MOTHER HATED IT!!!
Summary: 3 Stars
When Hilda Hensely (Patsy's mother) saw this movie she said, "I saw it once. That was enough for me."
Hollywood took all the dramatic liberties and artistic license it could in the making of this movie. Jessica Lange's performance is one of her best but her watching her lip-synch while Cline's real voice was heard on the Soundtrack is distracting as their voices are entirely different. Lange tends to overdo it on the lip-syching and one can tell she is doing it. Not good. No disrespect to Lange but they should have hired an actress who could sing....like Sissy Spacek who sang all of Loretta Lynn's songs on "Coal Miner's Daughter."
Ed Harris plays Charlie Dick well enough but is extremely unlikeable. It is inacurrate at all counts to portray him as a wife-beater. Sure, Patsy had Charlie arrested a couple of times but their relationship was NOT as volatile as portrayed here. Ask any of Patsy's contemporaries who are still alive...they will corroborate this.
Many inacurracies taken on this film. Instead of making it "Patsy and Charlie focused" they should have done better by portraying Patsy's struggles to rise to fame in her career.....she went through a lot before she finally hit it big. This is glossed over and given minute status in the film.
The plane crash was over-dramatized and totally inacurrate. It happened at night during a rainstorm....not during the day and the motor did not conk out prior to the crash!
I would have like to have seen more interaction between Patsy and her siblings as well. There was almost none except the car crash (also inaccurately depicted) with her brother and none with her sister Sylvia (a simple presentation of a gift for her high school graduation doesn't count).
The best things about this film are:
1. Ann Wedgeworth's portrayal of HIlda Hensley, Patsy's mother. SHe is superb!! SHe should have at least gotten an Oscar nomination for her portrayal. She steals every scene she's in.
2. The recreation of the Grand Ole OPry.
3. The Music...the Soundtrack....great.
There is extreme profanity and sexual content in this film. Definitely not for the kiddies!
Movie Review: Sweet Sounds On Sweet Dreams
Summary: 3 Stars
It's just a waste of time to quibble about the minor boosts given to dramatization at the expense of absolute accuracy regarding this film. (The most notable fact being that Cline looked much more like Bette Midler than Jessica Lange.)
But the point was never about how she mistakenly married a wife-beating weasel or what she said just before she made a big smudge on a mountain somewhere. (By the way, why was there a "benefit for a disc jockey" that Cline's ill-fated plane had to go to, anyway? Didn't DJ's make enough big money even back then?) But all that matters is that this movie points new fans to the incredible sound stylings of Cline herself.
And the producers thankfully opted to keep only Cline's original tunes in this one, instead of putting Lange through some forced vocal training to imitate her. Cline could never be completely imitated anyway, and decades later we can see that her quality still endures. Sure, we'll never forget other swingin' young '50s and early '60s country and/or pop stars, like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Bobby Darrin. And Patsy was one of 'em too!
Maybe one other point does need restating anyway, at the risk of being too obvious - hey, entertainers - whenever possible, stay the heck out of airplanes! If your career demands that you always get flown to your gigs instead of driven, then it's going way too fast. Nobody should be in that much of a hurry. You've got decades of a very rich life ahead of you - don't blow it all on a fiery crash in some crazy contraption invented by those nutty Wright brothers.
This lesson is shown by the following Dirty Dozen of entertainment legends who all also died in those "dang new-fangled flying machines":
Big Bopper
Jim Croce
John Denver
Bill Graham
Buddy Holly
Ricky Nelson
Otis Redding
Jim Reeves
Will Rogers
Ritchie Vallens
Ronnie Van Zant
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Movie Review: "Sweet Dreams" = Cline's life Hollywoodized
Summary: 3 Stars
Hollywood made it: embellished, out of context and sometimes very inaccurate. Ask anyone who knew Patsy Cline or read Ellis Nassour's 1993 bestseller, "Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline" and you'll see a much more beloved, complex Patsy Cline than what director Karel Reisz offers here. Filmed in 1985 in Virginia and Nashville, the main focus of the film is on Cline's second marriage to the love of her life, Charlie Dick, the father of her beloved children. It begins with their meeting and takes you on a short journey of how her career mixed with their marriage. All in all, the film, based on the extensive research I've done, is probably 40% accurate and her family and friends seem all but supportive of the film's story. Instead of showing the triumphant side of Cline - the woman who fought from an early age to leave her humble beginnings and realize her dream as a singer (and would become one of the best voices of all time) - it focuses on all of the tragedy of her life. But you know, trash sells. "Sweet Dreams" wasn't the box office smash it could have been. Jessica Lange's performance was well deserving of the Academy Award nomination that she recieved (she claims that the role of Patsy Cline was her favorite ever), although NOBODY could imitate someone as gifted and complex as Patsy Cline. It's worth a watch if you're a true Patsy Cline fan, but do yourself a favor and read Ellis Nassour's book, "Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline" or buy the DVD documentary "Remembering Patsy". "Sweet Dreams" only scrapes the surface of the woman she was. In Nassour's book and the DVD documentary, you'll see a side to Patsy Cline that even Hollywood could never portray. They tried. And failed.