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Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: When Loretta and Mooney are driving through town, it is supposed to be 1948. When they round the corner, a 1979 Dodge Omni is parked on the street, facing the opposite direction.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The modern "Ludwig" logo on her drummer's bass drum did not appear until many years later. Levon Helm, who played Loretta's father, should have noted that, since he was the drummer for The Band, a successful rock group of the '60s.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Loretta and Mooney stop to buy baloney, a candy display next to the cash register contains 1980s candy packages.
  
  

• Anachronisms: When Loretta is promoting a single at a record store in Nashville in the early 1960s, a Chevy Monte Carlo, about a 1978 or 1979 model, is visible in the background. Late model cars are also seen at other points during the movie.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Mooney takes the picture he does not pull the dark slide on the film holder in the camera so the film was not exposed.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: The boom mic is visible when teenager Loretta is talking to her mother in the living room.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The doctor Loretta visits comments that he hasn't seen her since he vaccinated the kids in the family for the measles. The first measles vaccine wasn't licensed for use until 1963, long after the time of her visit to the doctor.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Loretta and Patsy return to the parking lot after shopping, and after they drive off leaving Mooney behind, as he is walking through the lot you can see a 1965 Pontiac Tempest among the cars parked. Patsy died in 1963.
  
  
• Continuity: When Doo and Loretta are in the radio station, after the disc jockey said he had listened to the record, it shows Loretta picking up the envelope and handing it to Doo. He lifts the flap, the scene goes to the disc jockey and in the next scene it pans back to Doo opening the flap again, only this time it's licked and sealed with the metal clasp.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Doo and Loretta are driving to radio stations, the centerline in the road is yellow. For that time period, they should be white.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Early on in the film, railroad cars (coal hoppers) are shown. They have Southern Railway markings. In reality the Southern Railway did not operate in eastern KY at that time. They should have had Chesapeake & Ohio markings.
  
  
• Anachronisms: If Doo was driving an army surplus Jeep it would be the WWII Jeep - the MB, GPW; manufactured by Willys & Ford from 1941-1945. He is driving the first civilian Jeep vehicle, the CJ-2A produced in 1945. The CJ came with a tailgate, side-mounted spare tire, larger headlights, an external fuel cap and many more items that its military predecessors did not include.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Loretta makes her first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry, 1960, a "period mike" was not used. The microphone used in that scene wasn't manufactured until years later.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When "Doo" is taking Loretta's picture in their home he is using a pot lid to reflect light from a floor lamp. On several occasions both the camera and crew are visible in the reflection of the pot lid.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Loretta learns of Patsy Cline's death, when she's hugging Mooney and says her line "Who am I going to talk to now?", her lips don't move.
  
  
• Factual errors: Loretta tells Patsy she's pregnant. However, Patsy died on March 5, 1963, and Loretta had her twins on August 6, 1964, more than nine months later.
  
  
• Factual errors: Prior to her first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry, Loretta is listening to Patsy Cline singing "Crazy", then after her debut she is summoned to Patsy's hospital room where she is told Patsy was injured in a automobile accident. In reality, Patsy recorded "Crazy" a few weeks *after* her accident. In an NPR interview in 2000 one of the studio musicians present that day remarked that Patsy had difficulty hitting the high notes in "Crazy" because she was still sore from her accident.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Patsy brings out a box of her old maternity clothes to share with Loretta, a tag can be seen on the sleeve of a blouse. (Most likely the garment was purchased at a thrift store and the tag hadn't been removed for the film shoot.)
  
  

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