Rating: 6.4 out of 10 ★ - From 6 Users

Storyline The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011):

Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.

Movie details

Title: The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom
Released: 2011-03-04
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Mendes
Date: 2011-03-04
Runtime: 95
Company: Palomar
Homepage: Homepage Movie
Trailer: Video Trailer

Casts of The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom:

Julia Sarah Stone, Gil Bellows, Dolly Parton, Macha Grenon, Chantele Francis, Dawn Ford, Trevor Hayes, Rebecca Croll, Léa Roy, Mung-Ling Tsui, Keenan Lehmann, Rebecca Windheim, Will Woytowich, Emma Elle Paterson, Keir Cutler,

It gets points for creativity I guess, but the film strongly seems to be "trying too. hard." It was a waste of my evening to watch it, wish I could get that time back. I mean, the only reason I watched it was because it said it had Dolly Parton in it, but I never even got to see her, other than in stock footage!

The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is a 2011 Canadian coming-of-age film written and directed by Tara Johns and starring Macha Grenon, Gil Bellows, and Julia Sarah Stone. Dolly Parton provides a voice cameo.

The Year My Mom Was Dolly Parton relies on a good but not great script, well-drawn characters and performances and a pleasant, fuzzy sense of a simpler time.

The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is a poignant, sometimes funny, very female, coming of age story that explores the tension between creating identity and finding it within Special features. None. Product details. Actors: Gil Bellows, Macha Grenon, Julia Stone; ...

That's right, from the same people who brought you, The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom comes another originally titled (so far) film about a young Québécois idealist who seeks out his literary idol, only to become the main character in the great writer's final work - engineering his own death.

Dolly contributes to ‘The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom,’ a Canadian coming-of-age film directed by Tara Johns. Dolly contributed her voice in two cameo roles in the Canadian coming-of-age film “The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom,” released in 2011.

This movie is wonderful and really unique. I love indie films in general but any that also incorporate how wonderful Dolly Parton is both professionally and as a human being is a plus. I loved how Dolly herself was also incorporated into the film but never shown... she never had to act in person in this film - and that was wonderful.

An ingratiating but overly contrived Canadian coming-of-age tale, The Year Dolly Parton was My Mom is a "period" film in more than one sense. The story, set in 1976, follows 11-year-old Elizabeth ...