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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781558035744
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 1558035745
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: December 29, 1998
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 180
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 02, 1985
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
She wasn't a beauty queen, but country-music star Patsy Cline's voice was a thing of wonder: full-bodied, aching and dreamy at the same time. She came by the torchy emotions in her songs honestly, as shown in this biopic directed by Karel Reisz, rising from poor surroundings, literally forcing her talent on the Nashville establishment, all the while trying to survive an abusive marriage to a drinker. Though the script by Robert Getchell is standard Hollywood biography, the movie is more than watchable, thanks to a bone-deep performance by the always astonishing Jessica Lange and the counterpoint by Ed Harris as her loving but unreliable husband. The soundtrack features a basketful of Cline's hits, which Lange convincingly lip-synchs. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - PATSY'S MOTHER HATED IT!!!
When Hilda Hensely (Patsy's mother) saw this movie she said, "I saw it once. That was enough for me."
Hollywood took all the dramatic liberties and artistic license it could in the making of this movie. Jessica Lange's performance is one of her best but her watching her lip-synch while Cline's real voice was heard on the Soundtrack is distracting as their voices are entirely different. Lange tends to overdo it on the lip-syching and one can tell she is doing it. Not good. No disrespect ... Read More
Rating:  - BITTERSWEET BIOPIC OF PATSY CLINE
Before I saw "Sweet Dreams," I knew that Patsy Cline had a string of country-pop hits like "I Fall To Pieces" and "Crazy"; and I knew that she died in a tragic plane crash in 1963. After I saw this movie, I was hooked-- a Patsy Cline fan for life!
This movie seems rather obviously inspired by the earlier success of Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in "Coal Miner's Daughter." In "Daughter," Beverly D'Angelo played Patsy Cline and sang her own vocals. As good as D'Angelo was, (she received an Oscar ... Read More
Rating:  - Favorite movie
Great autobiography and just a good well acted movie. Watch it over and over.
Rating: - sweey dreams movie
great bio movie i know it is little older but interesting life story well told
Rating: - great movie
I watched this movie so many times. I am a huge fan of Patsy Cline. This is about some of her adult life and her untimely death that ended very tragic. She was and always will be one of the great country music female artist out there.
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