By: Linda Lee
Dolly Parton‘s all-time favorite song, based on her true life story has been turned into a new holiday movie starring Jennifer Nettles and we have a sneak peek right here!
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Jennifer Nettles stars as Dolly’s mama and from the preview here seems to be at ease in her role. But it’s the little girl Alyvia Alyn Lind, who plays a young Dolly who is truly mesmerizing!
“Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors” is based on the inspiring true story of living legend Dolly Parton’s remarkable upbringing. This once-in-a-lifetime movie special takes place inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith and a raggedy patchwork coat that helped make Parton who she is today.
The film is set in the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains in 1955. It is neither a biopic nor a musical about Dolly’s whole life and performing career, but rather a family-oriented faith-based story about the incidents in her and her family’s life around the time she was nine years old.
“Coat of Many Colors” has always been my favorite song too! It’s so true, you don’t need money to feel RICH, like Dolly Parton did when her Mama stitched her a colorful coat of many colors from tiny pieces of material that some would call ‘rags’…but each piece and every stitch was filled with LOVE that money cannot buy!
I am SO excited to see this movie that will premiere on NBC on December 10th, and here is the one and only Dolly Parton introducing this new and heartwarming movie with Jennifer Nettles in a lead role as the young Dolly’s mama!
