Sissy Spacek gives an extraordinary performance as Loretta Lynn in a drama that reveals the life of the "Queen of Country Music." Tommy Lee Jones is Loretta's ambitious husband Mooney who takes Loretta away from her backwoods Appalachia home to be his child bride. At eighteen, the mother of four children still finds time to sing and write songs. Badgered into making a record and going to Nashville, she gets a chance at the Grand Ole Opry, which launches her career into super stardom.