Word: cline
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ATTEMPT to portray Cline in the most realistic manner possible, Lange has totally changed not only her physical appearance (lucky for her that she's a natural blonde), but her voice as well, dropping it as much as two full octaves in order that her soprano speaking voice match up with Cline's whiskey-throated contralto. Unfortunately for Lange, realism in this context is more often than not equivalent to boredom--six scenes of Cline trying to pull together the threads of her life after either an out-and-out dogfight with second husband Charlie Dick (Ed Harris...
Lange does an admirable job of making us like Cline, giving her a spunky down-to-earthness that evaded even Sissy Spacek in Sweet Dreams' highly superior sister film, Coal Miner's Daughter, but only at the expense of making her seem entirely too ordinary...
Unlike Lynn, who rose to stardom literally from the backwoods of the south, Cline's path to the Grand Ole Opry seems to have been relatively worry-free, with random big-time record producers stopping her on the street and informing her that she is nothing less than the biggest talent to hit Nashville in generations...
Trapped by the constraints of a poorly fleshed out character, Harris, as Cline's husband Charlie Dick, could possibly fare even worse than does Lange in the execution of his role. Beer-guzzling, knee-slapping chauvinist Charlie would not appear to have much cult potential among today's hypersensitive post-Rambo moviegoing audiences. He certainly doesn't score too highly with wife Cline, who gave up a safe of boring first husband to plunge into the depths of eroticism with Charlie only to discover that she's not the only one keeping his bed warm at night...
...baby, boot-camp confined Dick jumps on a hot motorcycle and cruises the hundred or so miles back home just so he can drag his somnambulent wife out into the pouring rain for a slow dance in front of the nightclub where they met. As he cuddles against Cline's rain-soaked nightgown, it's impossible not to feel a rush of warmth for this self confessed jerk destined to walk life totally unaware of the pain he causes those he loves best...