This is astoundingly bad

You do know "white wash" means putting white actors in a role that was originally for or more suitable for a person of color right?

My girlfriend wrote a book called White Trash...Could have been the Dolly Parton story..they called her family White Trash..they were dirt poor...had dirt floors....

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Y'all obviously aren't Dolly fans! I think it is GREAT and spot on!

Trolls stir things up. They also don't come back.
I'm willing to discuss the bad writing, the decent acting, the truth and the glossing over of the truth.

"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night"

I was expecting Kirk Cameron to show up at any minute.

Oh my God, did you expect them to be reciting the shahada and all running around in burkas or something?????? Of course it's a Christian culture that they were in at that time and place! You must be a real "genius", NOT!!!! Hahahaha idiot!

You DO realize this is fact-based, right?
It would be dishonest to leave the driving force in the Parton's lives that Christianity played.
Please don't refer to it as "Garbage" either.

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So let me see if I understand this: a biopic about the granddaughter of a Pentecostal preacher, who grew up in a culture in which the teachings of Evangelical Christianity were a big factor in dealing with family problems, in a story that takes place in the 1950s when American culture - particularly in the South - was at least nominally more Christian than it is today, and whose work today frequently references her religious upbringing, should not have mentioned religion at all.

I would remind you that the subject of this film wrote songs like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oud8vr2y38k

And in case you missed it, one point of the story was that all the preaching and Bible reading and church going and praying, singing, and shouting doesn't mean much of anything unless it's supported by ordinary, everyday human love. It was people like the sanctimonious hypocrites at the general store who made the father feel like he could drive the family to church, but not go inside. He repented at the end (in the exact sense of changing his mind and attitude), not because of all the people preaching at him (in spite of that, actually), but because he suddenly realized how deeply he loved his wife and his family, and that love could only be fully expressed by participating in the faith community that they belonged to. He finally entered the church building, not because he suddenly found Jesus in his heart, but because that's where his family was and always would be.

Another point you missed is that this story was not just about nitwit religious beliefs (viz, the Kirk Cameron reference): it was about how real people in real situations facing real tragedies have to question their religion, and wrestle God down to the ground sometimes, to make sense of the world and their place in it. Dolly Parton in particular has always been interesting to me because of her lifelong inner debate between deep personal faith and worldly ambitions. At the end, the child Dolly stated that she had one more thing to do: she had to forgive God.

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"Oh, well," said Zanoni, "to pour pure water in the muddy well does but disturb the mud!"