![]() ![]() Much of Long’s best writing - again, not surprising, given her background - occurs in the scenes between Parton’s parents as they work out their difficulties and differences, and Schroder and Nettles take their measure nicely. (It’s a real enough situation.) As much as the shape of the film drives toward an expected end, it also seems to support his independence of mind. Dolly Partons Coat of Many Colors (2015) Buy or rent YouTube Movies & TV 163M subscribers Subscribe 475 Experience the magic and warmth of Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors, a. Similarly, the ongoing question of whether Parton’s daddy is going to come under the roof of the church where his father-in-law (Gerald McRaney, typically solid) preaches, can be seen as one of domestic devotion as much as one of Christian revelation. There is room for nonbelievers here, if at times just barely. And yet, apart from some confluences of events that some in the story and some watching it might read as a heavenly sign or an answered prayer - which you are also left free to read as simple coincidence - nothing supernaturally miraculous occurs. Given the title’s Biblical allusion - which little Dolly, already picturing herself as “a rising star of the Grand Old Opry,” interprets as presaging her own eventual triumph - and a whole lot of talking about, talking to and talking back to the Almighty, “Coat” can seem to come with an inspirational agenda. The outline, which does not amount to a spoiler, runs something like this: Girl gets coat, girl loves coat, coat is mocked, girl hates coat - also mother, also God - girl loves coat (mother, God.) If it tends to meander a bit through many subplots and episodes, Long - a soap opera writer, after all - does manage to bridge the titular business from first scene to last. Holland’s Opus” long ago, and others things since), and shot in Georgia, down the road apiece from the place it’s set, it’s a handsome piece, with some sweet performances. Long (“Guiding Light,” “One Life to Live”) and directed by Stephen Herek (who made “Mr. Although the film is often obvious and predictable, they keep it on the right side of cloying. As her mother, Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles, a country singer by trade, does good work, not merely for a novice and, as her father, Rick Schroder, once an adorable moppet himself, is easy and serious.
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