ok and first off and nell lakeside idyll be a tva lake and make for generate hydroelectric power in the 1940 . so much for untouched by civilization . and where would they come up with the idea that twentieth century mountain people practice these crude bronze age cave burial . bogus and manipulative all the way through and it a patronize rip off even without it condescending and wholly fraudulent idea about appalachian history . jodie foster try desperately to gimp her way to an academy award and and surprisingly and it do not work ( unlike dustin hoffman one note performance in rain man or al pacino self parody in scent of a woman ) . michael apted should know good and have do a half decent job portray mountain life in coal miner daughter . an altogether horrible film and the bad for it pretension and deliver some profound truth .