Sissy Spacek won an Oscar nomination for best actress for her portrayal of country and western star Loretta Lynn in
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). The Academy Award-winning documentary
Best Boy (1979) tells the story of the New York parents struggling to make their ageing and retarded son ready for life without them. On location in Egypt Lesley-Anne Down and Frank Langella talk of their roles in
Sphinx (1981), a thriller set in the Valley of the Kings.
—Radio Times