In 1945, 13-year-old Loretta Webb is one of eight children of Ted Webb (Levon Helm), a Van Lear coal miner raising a family with his wife in the midst of grinding poverty in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky (pronounced by locals as “Butcher Holler”).

• Coal Miners Daughter
• Sissy Spacek
• Tommy Lee Jones
• Levon Helm
• Michael Apted