subject: Best Musician Biopics To Watch on Satellite TV [print this page] This great 1980 film features Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn, one of the first great female country stars. You get to see Loretta from her barefooted childhood in the hills of eastern Kentucky to the beginnings of her career when she was taking care of 6 children while writing music and playing guitar to her successful streak at the Grand Ole Opry. As is the case in most of these films, Sissy Spacek amazes with how well she can sing.