Blue Valley Songbird: Song From the Heart [DVD]
Rated: Unrated Format: DVD
4.4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- Product Dimensions : 19.05 x 1.78 x 13.72 cm; 68.04 Grams
- Manufacturer reference : 96739
- Media Format : NTSC
- Release date : Oct. 12 2010
- Studio : Echo Bridge
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #116,997 in Movies & TV Shows (See Top 100 in Movies & TV Shows)
- #22,149 in Drama (Movies & TV Shows)
- #85,939 in DVD
Product description
This thoroughly enjoyable 1999 television movie is an appropriately understated vehicle for country superstar Dolly Parton. Though a limited actress, Parton's key role as a saloon singer with suppressed ambitions makes for a perfect fit, neither overextending her lean thespian gifts nor inadvertently mocking her range. Parton sings, of course, yet even the hillbilly angel within yields to the script's focused tale of a love triangle involving underrated singer-songwriter Leanna (Parton), her longtime manager and boyfriend Hank (an outstanding performance by John Terry), and a restless musician (Billy Dean). Veteran director Richard A. Colla (Fuzz, Battlestar Galactica) approaches the material with grown-up sensitivity and understanding. As Jean Renoir said, everyone has their reasons, and that's certainly the case with these good people on screen. A subplot concerning Leanna's psychological mistreatment in youth by a wacked-out father is an unnecessary and redundant character note, but other than that misstep, Blue Valley Songbird is a pure pleasure.