If this film did nothing else good, it helped Jones break out, though make no mistake, that is not the only thing good about this film. Now, T-Bone Jones is no Austinte, and on top of that, he looks like Dick Nixon, so I don't know how he ended up being a Democrat (Harvard must have gotten to his head), but hey, if I can still like Jones' fellow Meryl Streep romantic-comedy love interest, the hot-headed, spoiled, overtly liberal and exceedingly charming Alec Baldwin, I reckon I'll stick it out with Jones, even if he did steal DiCaprio's Oscar. Jokes aside, I can't help but feel as though Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones fit together, not just because they both have offputting facial features, what with Spacek's being generally kind of cute while Jones is off being kind of cute to bulldog owners, but because they're both good ol' Texas folk, no matter how much they try to convince you otherwise.

Even over thirty years later, much less two years later, people are still having trouble looking as Sissy Spacek and not thinking of 'Carrie', but don't get too excited, folks, because there's no part in this film or, for that matter, history in which Loretta Lynn blows up some people with her mind, so don't go thinking that this film is going to be crazy just because it stars Carrie White and Harvey Two-Face. I thought this was the crazy religious nut's sheltered and dangerously telepathic daughter, but okay, whatever, I guess I'll run with it.

Coalminer's daughter