The coat comes in for some ridicule among Dolly’s schoolmates, which leads little Dolly to become first embarrassed and then angry - at the kids for their cruelty and at her mother for having convinced her it was a beautiful item of clothing.īut this TV-movie takes a dark turn and stays in that darkness for a surprisingly long time: A pregnant Momma loses her baby - it would have been her ninth - and it leads to a crisis in her marriage. Based on Parton’s 1971 hit song, it’s about a coat stitched together from rags that Dolly’s momma made for her when she was little.
I have a feeling anyone who’s moved to tune in is not going to tune out. This is a production so wholeheartedly sentimental, so boldly maudlin, that you have to either respect and admire the total commitment to cornball that everyone involve has made, or cash out and turn the channel. Related: Why the Coat in ‘Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors’ Doesn’t Look Like the Real Oneīasically, within the first half-hour, you have a decision to make. (Momma to Dolly: “Yore singin’! It pours outta you lahk a bucket filled with holes!”)
They live on a mountain top in Tennessee, a big family, very poor but rich in love. Country singer Jennifer Nettles and Ricky Schroder star as the parents of a very young version of Dolly Parton, played with glowing winsomeness by eight year-old Alyvia Alyn Lind.
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Once the movie begins, it quickly becomes clear that this is going to be the most down-home family production since The Waltons. The sleigh is there because Dolly clearly wants Coat of Many Colors to become a holiday tradition, even though the plot has nothing specifically to do with Christmas. The plug for her Tennessee amusement park is justified by the fact that the commercial venture is located in the same rustic environment in which Dolly grew up, and that’s the site of this TV-movie set in 1955. Dolly Parton introduces Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors seated in a Christmas sleigh parked in front of a gigantic Dollywood sign.