Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

mbhaynes Bernie Schwartz managed to take a relatively thin story (Patsy Cline had a relatively short career) into a totally engrossing, satisfying movie, country music fan or not. The acting is superb, and the work of the crew should not be overlooked. Costumes by Ann Roth were so spot on you don't even notice them, which is as it should be unless it's a major period piece. These are extraordinary actors and the film holds up for viewing after viewing after viewing. Ann Wedgeworth, purported to be extremely difficult to work with, was perfect as Patsy's mother. The surprise casting of Bruce Kirby as Arthur Godfrey took me three viewings to catch. Note that James Staley, boring first husband, Gerald Cline, played the boring husband Kevin Palmer in American Dreamer with JoBeth Williams. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes a good film, regardless of genre.

dbdumonteil Patsy Cline is not very known in Europa but her influence can be heard in country music :it marks her as an important antecedent for all kinds of later figures ,from Dolly Parton to Linda Rondstadt.Elvis Costello covered "sweet dreams" on her "almost blue" country album.This biopic owes a lot to its two principals: Jessica Lange as the singer whose life and career tragically ended and Ed Harris,a reluctant draftee then a violent but tender husband :I like his scene when he 's alone in the room listening to his wife's record,the only thing that's left to him.Lange is dubbed for the songs ,a good thing cause we can hear Cline's real voice.She wanted to be Hank Williams ,another artist whose fate was tragic.NB: In the late fifties, a radio is playing Presley's "can't help falling in love".If my memory serves me well,this song was part of "blue Hawai" soundtrack,which was released only in 1961.

Guynsc80 As an avid Patsy Cline fan, I've done quite a bit of research on her life since seeing this film in 1985. The film, while good and very dramatic, doesn't portray the Cline that her family and friends seemed to know. In fact her own mother said of the film in a1 985 People Magazine article "The producers told me they were going to make a love story. I saw the film once. That was enough." While Jessica Lange fabulously captures Cline's mannerisms on stage and off, Cline is portrayed in this film as a victim of domestic violence, when, in real life those who knew her describe her as an outspoken, strong willed fighter who didn't take anything off of anybody. The film focuses more on the tragedy in her life rather than the triumph of her career, often making it very depressing and dark. The inaccuracies throughout the film are numerous, most significantly with the plane crash that takes her life as being depicted as crashing into a mountain, when in fact it crashed into a forest. While the film served as a wonderful vehicle to promote Cline's legacy and introduce her music to newer generations, Sweet Dreams failed to capture the many facets of Cline's life and personality, including her giving spirit to countless friends and her hilarious sense of humor. Sweet Dreams is worth viewing, but don't take it as 100% factual. Hollywood took her story and made it their own.

tnchick1972 This is a really good movie. I'm not sure of it's accuracy to Patsy's life, but I was pretty stunned at Patsy's crudeness. She always seemed so lady-like. Jessica Lange was the perfect choice for Patsy, not Beverly DeAngelo. I did not like Ed's portrayal of Charlie simply because I never liked him until recent years. He's grown on me. I watched this movie for the first time several years ago and was shocked at how her death was portrayed. I was born and raised in Camden, Tennessee (where the accident happened- NOT Dyersburg!) and there are no mountains. When the plane crashed, it was night and there had been a severe thunderstorm in the area.