it's one o'clock in the morning, what do you want

 Coal Miner's Daughter is a movie about the life of Loretta Lynn, an American country music singer.

The performance of every actor and actress in it is top-notch.  For the duration of the movie, you yourself are "in" the country music business - just, all in.

        Even if you previously had no relation to it - watching this film, you're part of this world.

That's one of the functions of art - to share human experience.

        There's a scene in the movie where Loretta has just returned to the family home, from a tour.  She and her husband are getting into bed and a lonely phone rings, downstairs.

        Doolittle gets up and goes down and picks it up, saying, "It's one o'clock in the morning, what the hell do-ya want?"

- "No, Loretta ain't here, lady, she's on the road - how the hell did ya get this number, anyway?!  "

- "Hey, quit that cryin,' lady - quit it, and I'll give Loretta your message.  Yeah.  All right.  You liked her last album a lot" [reaches over and gets a piece of paper and a pen] ...

..."She loves you, too."  [He listens, and sighs.]  "She'll pray for you, too."

"Lady, you're gonna have to quit that cryin'.  Get yourself some sleep.  It's gonna be better in the mornin'.  I guarantee."

[He listens a few seconds, and starts laughing, gently...] 

"No.  No - you didn't wake me up."  [laughs a little more]

"Uh-uh.  That's right."  [laughs]  "There's a lot of lonesome people in the world."

Sigh.

"Good-night."

Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek as Doolittle Lynn and Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter

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