Coal miner's daughter (Motion picture) Smokey and the bandit (Motion picture) Best little whorehouse in Texas (Motion picture) Fried green tomatoes (Motion picture)
Notes:
"Four feature films"--Container. Coal miner's daughter special features: feature commentary with Sissy Spacek and director Michael Apted ; Tommy Lee Jones remembers Coal miner's daughter ; an exclusive interview with Loretta Lynn and director Michael Apted ; President George Bush Sr. salutes AFI and Coal miner's daughter. Fried green tomatoes special features: Moments of discovery: the making of Fried green tomatoes ; feature commentary with director Jon Avnet ; Jon Avnet's director's notes ; production photographs ; poster campaign. Coal miner's daughter: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm. The best little whorehouse in Texas: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors. Smokey and the bandit: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason. Fried green tomatoes: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary-Louise Parker, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cicely Tyson.
Contents:
[Disc 1]. Coal miner's daughter, 25th anniversary edition (1980, 125 min.) -- [disc 2]. Smokey and the bandit (1977, 96 min.) ; The best little whorehouse in Texas (1982, 115 min.) -- [disc 3]. Fried green tomatoes anniversary edition (1991, 137 min.).
Summary:
Coal miner's daughter: The story of country singer Loretta Lynn. The best little whorehouse in Texas: The town sheriff and regular patron attempts to save the legendary Chicken Ranch from a television preacher. Smokey and the bandit: A trucker takes on a runaway bride and a trailer full of beer with a sheriff in hot pursuit. Fried green tomatoes: An unhappy housewife befriends an elderly woman in a nursing home and hears her remarkable story.
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