A Masterpiece!

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

The only other case of actor and singer becoming as one to deliver a performance like Jessica Lange does in Sweet Dream are The Jolson Story and Jolson Sings Again. It's good to note that Larry Parks also got an Oscar nomination for The Jolson Story in the Best Actor category. With a treasure trove of records to use some of Patsy Cline's best tracks are lipsynched by Jessica Lange as the story of the country girl from Virginia who rose to the very top of the country music world and stays forever there. Lange does a fabulous job in stepping into the character of Patsy Cline. You really do think that voice is coming out of her.Sadly not recognized in the Oscar sweepstakes is Ed Harris who plays her second husband. The first is barely given a mention and the only thing he left to Virginia Patterson Henley is the name of Cline. Ed who recognizes that his name of Charlie Dick is good for a few laughs is your average blue collar working stiff from the red states. No better or no worse than many of the folks who hang out in the country bars that he does. Harris never loses his blue collar roots, yet it bothers him that the duds he wears and the cars he drives are because of his wife's money. He's an alpha male through and through and while Lange is singing at a state fair, Harris is busy entered in a demolition derby at the same fair. He's not a simple redneck by any means though and no matter how he transgresses, Lange forgives him.Other portrayals of note are that of David Clemons as her manager Randy Harris and Ann Wedgworth as Lange's mother. Lange got the only Oscar recognition that Sweet Dreams received. She lost to Geraldine Page for The Trip To Bountiful. Perhaps without Page in the running Jessica Lange might have won that year.I'm sure Patsy was grateful to Jessica Lange for putting her career and life on permanent record. Charlie Dick who was still alive said he was misrepresented, but I have my doubts. Wherever Patsy Cline is now. For us on earth Patsy Cline left a wonderful legacy of music and song that will be appreciated for centuries.As will Sweet Dreams.

This unremarkable screen biography of singer Patsy Cline is short on imagination, but it features a natural performance by Jessica Lange and some colorful country-western atmosphere. Perhaps the film's biggest problem is that Cline's turbulent life could only have been adapted to the screen as a conventional show-biz melodrama, and the result here is a more or less typical Hollywood romance, easy on the eyes even when not particularly interesting. The rags-to-troubled-riches scenario is hardly novel, but that doesn't diminish the incidental pleasures of seeing more or less the same story told for the umpteenth time.The film's soundtrack includes many of the singer's original recordings, expertly lip-synched by the cast.

Patsy Cline is not very known in Europa but her influence can be heard in country music :it marks her as an important antecedent for all kinds of later figures ,from Dolly Parton to Linda Rondstadt.Elvis Costello covered "sweet dreams" on her "almost blue" country album.This biopic owes a lot to its two principals: Jessica Lange as the singer whose life and career tragically ended and Ed Harris,a reluctant draftee then a violent but tender husband :I like his scene when he 's alone in the room listening to his wife's record,the only thing that's left to him.Lange is dubbed for the songs ,a good thing cause we can hear Cline's real voice.She wanted to be Hank Williams ,another artist whose fate was tragic.NB: In the late fifties, a radio is playing Presley's "can't help falling in love".If my memory serves me well,this song was part of "blue Hawai" soundtrack,which was released only in 1961.

I loved this film pasty cline and charlie dick where a wonderful couple such fantastic charisma they were truly unique she was cut to short her life ended by a tragic accident i would love to have lived in her time to no the great woman that she was and still no her as a great all time terrific singer i wish i could have met her so sad her time on earth was a little in comparison to others but it meant so much. we loved you pasty (virginia dick you were the greatest what else can I say so good so short ans so wonderful she was we can all learn something from her live life and enjoy cause life is way to short she died so tragically and she had so much to offer she feels like she was my best friend i love her so much but I wish i had met charlie because for me he was the hero he was so nice and sexy tell him to phone me sometime