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  • 2022
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  • Sony Pictures Classics
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  • 2022
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  • Sony Pictures Classics
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Summary Trailblazing, hell-raising country music legend Tanya Tucker defied the standards of how a woman in country music was supposed to behave. Decades after Tanya slipped from the spotlight, rising Americana music star Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya’s extraordinary life, spurring the ...

Directed By: Kathlyn Horan

Written By: Kathlyn Horan

  • 2022
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2022
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 48 m

The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary Trailblazing, hell-raising country music legend Tanya Tucker defied the standards of how a woman in country music was supposed to behave. Decades after Tanya slipped from the spotlight, rising Americana music star Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya’s extraordinary life, spurring the ...

Directed By: Kathlyn Horan

Written By: Kathlyn Horan

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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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8% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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89
Nov 2, 2022
Throughout, Horan tactfully pulls from archival interviews and footage of the singer to mark her meteoric rise as a teenager in the 1970s; her tumultuous, tabloid-fodder, 1980s career; and her effective blackballing from the industry when she became too rock & roll and irreverent for country sensibilities.
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80
Oct 24, 2022
It is a fascinating document of making a comeback record — sorry, Tanya — while balancing the hard work and the gentle coaxing and cheerleading required when working with a complex talent like Tucker.
By Bill Goodykoontz FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 20, 2022
This profoundly moving movie covers a different kind of success, as a great musician takes pains to make sure her idol receives some proper respect — the only currency that always matters.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 2, 2022
The somewhat awkwardly titled documentary, The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile, turns out to be an accurate summary of a film that celebrates two women.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 28, 2022
Even if you do know how this story ends, it’s beautifully touching seeing and hearing somebody who’s been through the fame, celebrity and cocaine wringer, just grateful at the victory lap her biggest fan provides for her.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 20, 2022
The movie interweaves the contemporary sessions with a very selective — and, while not wholly sanitized, certainly discreet — account of her tumultuous past. Overall it’s a better-than-competent piece of fan service and a not unpersuasive bid for an auxiliary youth audience.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
42
Oct 20, 2022
The creative vision necessary to properly chronicle the impact of two musical icons never presents itself and thoroughly undermines the film’s resonance, deforming the movie into a prosaic, excessively sentimental catalog of events.
By Jonathan Christian FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Impact Partners, John William Hart III Insurance, Motto Pictures
Release Date Oct 21, 2022
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating R
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Website https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/thereturnoftanyatucker/
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Awards

Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Woodstock Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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