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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 8, 1999
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Hbo Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jessica Lange | |
Performer: | Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth & David Clennon | |
Directed by | Karel Reisz |
Entertainment Reviews:
Lange's performance as tragic country crooner Cline, whose life was brought to a premature end by an unfortunate meeting of her plane and a mountain, is the main reason to watch this lively biopic.
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Film4
...Lange makes herself a perfect physical extension of the vibrant, changeable, enormously expressive woman who can be heard on these recordings....Both skillful and credible...
New York Times
"Sweet Dreams" doesn't draw you in the way, say, "Coal Miner's Daughter" (the story of Loretta Lynn) did, but it does entertain.
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Washington Post
Rating: 4/5 --
Patsy Cline musical bio hits true notes
Kansas City Kansan
The two main performances are excellent: Lange plays the singer without a hint of condescension to her dreams of 'a big house with yellow roses', while Harris is persuasively menacing, with an inventively foul mouth.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Lange and Harris, dangerously well-matched, give us lovers whom only success could sunder.
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Los Angeles Times
But the resulting film is scattershot, always skirting the surface, never digging deep enough, runnning through events as if it was a TV movie racing ahead to the next commercial break.
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Chicago Tribune
Product Description:
In Karel Reisz's SWEET DREAMS, Jessica Lange stars as Patsy Cline, the ill-fated country singer whose trembling, emotion packed renditions of "Crazy," "Sweet Dreams," and "I Fall to Pieces," made her one the most enduring voices in all of American popular music. Starting out by performing more standard country songs in little dives and honky-tonks in Virginia, Patsy rose to national prominence after her manager Ted Healy matched her voice to her now famous bittersweet love songs. Unfortunately, her own love life often mirrored the sadness in her songs. We see her choose to "stand by her man," as Loretta Lynn sang in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER. That film, similar to SWEET DREAMS in that it's another country singer's bio that shows us the professional success and personal heartache of women during the 1950s. Save for the music, this could be any woman's story of a love-hate marriage. Patsy's abusive husband, the all too perfectly named Charlie Dick (Is it any wonder she choose to continue to use her first husband's name') is played with a nice blend of love, jealously, and malice by Ed Harris. As Patsy's mother, Ann Wedgeworth gives a superb portrait of a sweet but steel-cored Southern woman on whom Patsy is as emotionally dependent as she is on her husband. Their scenes together, full of tangy Southern aphorisms, have a wonderful bite and sparkle.
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- Sales Rank: 6,459
- UPC: 026359366628
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