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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...
...Reisz's annoying obsession with portraying "the total woman," the two are permitted to develop their intriguing love-hate relationship only at discrete intervals throughout the course of the movie. If things had been otherwise, we might have been treated to a country-style Breathless if not a Coal Miner's Granddaughter...
Although both sides hope to avert a long strike, the walkout is still sure to hurt. Wall Street analysts estimate that the firm could lose more than $60 million in after-tax profits for every week workers are out. The company hardly plays down the threat. Says Thomas Miner, Chrysler's vice president for industrial relations: "This whole company is paralyzed, and we'll start to bleed to death." U.S. negotiations recessed for the weekend, although talks continued in Canada. The Chrysler strike comes just as the U.S. auto industry is completing a banner year, projecting sales of 15.5 million...
...Here is Streep as the troubled survivor of a traumatic World War II episode. Sophie's Choice? No, Plenty. Lange stars as a trailblazing country singer of the '60s who has a truculent husband and a few brushes with disaster. A remake of Loretta Lynn and Coal Miner's Daughter? No, this is Patsy Cline and Sweet Dreams. Spacek plays a Southern working-class mother fighting high-level corruption. Wait a minute: that's Norma Rae, or maybe Silkwood. No, this year they're calling it Marie. Not to be confused with a Close comedy called Maxie, which opened...
...overwhelming majority of delegates also demonstrated the resentment many miners feel toward Prime Minister Thatcher's Conservative government and the National Coal Board. They approved a motion to congratulate the leadership for its handling of the disastrous strike and made a rule change enabling Scargill to remain president of the N.U.M. for life. British Energy Secretary Peter Walker has condemned the union's actions, warning that "every miner who values the freedom this country offers and has no desire to turn Britain into a Communist state should recognize what the mineworkers' conference is all about...