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I SAW THE LIGHT

Tom Hiddleston (Actor), Elizabeth Olsen (Actor), Marc Abraham (Director, Producer) Rated:

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I SAW THE LIGHT is the story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston), who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life. Also starring Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones, Bradley Whitford, Maddie Hasson and Wrenn Schmidt.

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I SAW THE LIGHT is the story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston), who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life. Also starring Elizabeth Olsen, Bradley Whitford, David Krumholtz and Cherry Jones.

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Digital Copy Expiration Date ‏ : ‎ December 31, 2019
Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.40:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.92 Ounces
Audio Description: ‏ : ‎ English
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 35733919
Director ‏ : ‎ Marc Abraham
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 4 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ July 5, 2016
Actors ‏ : ‎ Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones, Bradley Whitford, Maddie Hasson
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Thai, Portuguese, French
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Thai, Mandarin Chinese, English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Korean
Producers ‏ : ‎ Marc Abraham, G. Marq Roswell, Brett Ratner, Aaron Gilbert
Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01FEOA0II
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Linda HendrexTop Contributor: Pets

The Lead Performance Was so Good it Was Downright Eerie!

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2018

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This movie is an amazing display of a British actor playing the role of an Alabama -born singer. If I hadn't known that Tom Hiddleston was British before seeing him in I SAW THE LIGHT, I wouldn't have suspected a thing - even though I am from the American South. My brain and ears are completely attuned to the sound, rhythm, and accents of southern speech and this portrayal could have fooled me completely. It is worth watching this flick for the privilege of watching the lead actor, even if there is no other motivation to see Hank Williams's bio-pic.

The story itself is not as engaging as Tom Hiddleston, though. Hank Williams is an American Country Music icon, and as such, it is interesting to know who he was. But my personal take on it is that his life was way too sad with very little to redeem it. It left me feeling empty.

So, I'm not sorry I watched it - both the lead performance and the story itself are worth watching for the educational value alone. And Tom Hiddleston's portrayal of Hank Williams is a museum-quality work of art.

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Blown away.

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2021

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It’s 2021, and I just discovered Loki on Disney plus and was blown away by the star actor Tom Hiddlestone, so looked for other work he has done. First, I forgot he was an actor and it felt like a documentary. Little things like his back hurting in bed with his wife we’re painful to watch. The guy is an amazing singer. Elizabeth Olson is wonderful as his wife. I knew nothing about Hank Williams before and was riveted. I don’t understand the Oscars because he should have been nominated, but it’s turned more into a popularity contest. Having an English Literature degree with a focus on Shakespeare, I’ve started Henry IV, and again, he’s a completely different character. I wish I’d found his work sooner but now have the fun to go back and look at his catalogue. I met Maggie Smith when I was a child at Stratford in Ontario, Canada, and believe he is the same caliber.

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Glad I finally gave

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2017

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I I initially refrained from seeing this, due to the scathing critical reviews. Glad I finally gave. My uncle knew Hank Williams (and played fiddle with him in quite a few shows), and I say unequivocally, "SCREW THE CRITICS AND THEIR PATHETIC JOBS." Don' t make the same mistake I did...this is a great picture and Tom Huddleston puts on a tour-de-force.

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L.M.G.

I Missed the Real Voice of Hank Sr............and yet...

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2016

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I really missed the real Hank Williams voice in this film and yet Tom Hiddleston gave a magnificent performance with his own voice.His acting was great and his tall, lanky form certainly resembled Hank My favorite part was the "Lovesick Blues" at the Grand Ol' Opry, the closest thing to being at a real Hank Williams concert. The Hank Williams feeling is just overwhelming and delightful. Hard to sit still when watching that. Overall, I was pleased with the film and gave it four stars.

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Pleasantly surprised...

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2017

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After all the critical reviews, I wasn't expecting much from this movie. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Hiddleston did a fantastic job of portraying the young country legend. A British actor and he didn't even lip sync. Incredible. The film was well done and I'm giving it its due.

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Charles E. Mitchell

Mostly A Disappointment

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2018

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Yes, the acting was great. Yes, Hiddleston did a fine performance of communicating the pain, inner turmoil, and inability to cope with life that must have dominated the day to day existence of Hank Williams. The script does a superb job of illustrating his excessive drinking, and his troubled relationships with women. It does very little to present his unique gifts that allowed him to create so many excellent songs, nor his ability to reach out and touch the inner souls of an audience both in his spoken dialogue and in the words of his songs. How do you film a Hank Williams movie without a performance of 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' or major segments of other top hits?

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Mmo6

👎 Two thumbs down 👎

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2020

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The actor who played Hank really should have just lip synced to the real songs. I’ve heard positive comments about his performance but I found it very difficult to endure and disappointing after the raving reviews and a far, far cry from resembling the real thing.
They really painted him out to be all bad and a pathetic excuse for a man without touching on his positive characteristics, so historically it isn’t balanced or necessarily factual. Additionally, it just raced along skimming the surface of events and leaving lose ends everywhere, so even the entertainment value was lacking.
There’s a 5 part documentary on YouTube if you’re interested in the real Hank Williams Sr. but save your time and money and don’t bother with this particular title.

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StreamLine

A total disappointment.

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2022

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While the actor who portrayed Williams, Tom Huddleston looked the part, his vocal performance was disappointing. He sounded very little like Hank and was woefully off key much of the time. Elisabeth Olson was not much better. While production values were excellent, the pace proceeded at a crawl and overall there was very little to like here. As IMDb rates it at a 5.8/10, the film fared badly at the box-office. Overall, a waste of time and money considering what it could have been. I had hoped for a "Coal Miner's Daughter" or "I walk The Line." It was neither. Frankly, considering to how magnamiously Williams changed the course of Country music, his legacy demanded much more than this cinematic effort provided. Two👎's down on this one.

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J. L. Sievert

Poet of heartache

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2017

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When I was a boy my dad would sometimes sing me to sleep at night, strumming an old box guitar, singing Country & Western tunes. He did the same for my two brothers and my sister. He played basic chords and his voice wasn’t strong but he sang the simple hard-luck songs with great feeling, as if in song he could better express himself than in life with words. All these years later I can still hear that voice and guitar.

Jim Reeves, the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins. These were some of his mainstays. He loved Patsy Cline too but wouldn’t sing her songs, perhaps thinking it foolish for a man to try. But of all the country singers and Grand Ole Opry stars he loved Hank Williams best.

Hank was born in September 1923, my dad in November that very same year. Exact contemporaries, they survived the Great Depression together, a terrible time of privation that scarred both. My dad pinched pennies throughout his life, traumatised by the fear of destitution. It was an illusion. By the end he was nominally rich. But in his mind he was always poor, always struggling. Hank felt the same. He was the voice of struggle, hardship, loss, heartache. Like every great poet he whittled down feeling to the simplest words. That’s where his profundity lies — in simplicity.

My dad, too, was simple in his ways. He was practical, Germanic in thinking. Chores, hard work, saving, investing. These were the things that got one ahead. God and religion weren’t as important, thank goodness — just social conventions. Rely on yourself and your own hard work, not God. Who knows, whoever proved, that the old greybeard was even listening? If I was a freethinker, a dissenter from an early age, it’s because my dad never bullied and threatened me with fire and brimstone. And, thinking back, it’s one of the dearest legacies he left me — a mind free enough to work things out for itself. “Your Cheatin’ Heart”, “Jambalaya”, “Honky Tonk Blues”, “Cold, Cold Heart”, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” — he sang and loved them all. Hank touched something deep in him the way he touched millions of others.

Hank had his demons. This is well known. Whiskey, pills, morphine, tobacco: all of it used in excess. He ate and slept poorly. He womanised, ran around on his wife. He had a bad back, was born with it, and it only got worse through time. But his music was honest, his art pure, and that’s why he lives on through it.

In 1951, in New York City, he did the following interview with a journalist named James Dolan (or at least it was framed like this in the film):

Reporter (sitting down with Hank): You don’t like doing this much, do you?

Hank: It comes with the job. You know what I don’t like, it’s people saying one thing when they’ve got something else on their mind. You do what I do, get where I am, you see plenty of that: people thinkin’ they’ll make a nice pie with a slice of me.

R: Well, I’m only looking to give people some insight into you: why you write what you write, sing what you sing.

H: I write what I write and sing what I sing cos that’s what I do. Ain’t much choice, right?

R: As an artist?

H: That’s your word.

R: You are offering your fans something. What would you say that is?

H: Mr. Dolan, everybody has a little darkness in them. They may not like it, not want to know about it. But it’s there…Things like anger, misery, sorrow, shame. And they hear it. I show it to them. And they don’t have to take it home.

R: You think that’s what they expect from you?

H: They expect I can help their troubles…I reckon they think I’m some kinda Red Cross…You can write this down: folk music, hillbilly, it’s sincere. There ain’t nothing phoney in it. A man sings a sad song. He knows it’s sad.

Hank came out of that darkness, that sincerity. It’s what he did, what he could do. Cliché and convention didn’t interest him. He sang from experience, the heart. He didn’t fake his way through life and art. If the songs are painful, they say what he felt. How do you write of such things without lapsing into self-pity and parody? I don’t know. It must be difficult. Somehow he could do it.

A line from “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”:

“The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky.”

The silence does this, not the light. No country bumpkin could have written this. It comes from a place of suffering in the soul, a place of insight. He wouldn’t have called it art and poetry because those were not his words and meant little to him. It was the feeling that mattered. He sang what he felt, what millions feel. By making it personal he made it universal. His genius was his honesty. The bogus never interested him. There was nothing in that to sing about. All his energies went into the authentic.

The standard biopic begins in youth and ends in death. This one isn’t standard. It isn’t interested in covering the life: the first guitar, band, gigs. All this can be imagined. Instead it focuses on adulthood and relationships because that’s what Hank sang about: love and its many complications.

Women were central to his existence. His sensitivity came from them. He listened and cared about what they thought. They saw better than men did. They lived more deeply, unafraid of their emotions as men are. They could express them and wanted to. It was like breathing for them, oxygen. Men by comparison were always suffocating, bottled up and suppressed, fighting and brawling and cursing to let it out. Or going to war. Hank knew both sides and preferred the feminine, loved the feeling of being in a woman’s arms in bed, a place of comfort that felt like home. There he could breathe and feel free.

Hank had no father, or not one he could remember. Instead he had Lilly, a dominant mother, the template for women he would love, the strong ones who could hold their own, the ones who wouldn’t be pushed around and bullied by men. He loved them for this, for refusing to be only what men wanted them to be. He hated authority and saw in women a kind of kindred spirit. Like them, he was an outsider. Like them, he would hold his own, not compromise.

Audrey was his first wife, the main rival to Lilly. They fought over Hank, over his life, art, genius. Each claimed and wanted him for herself, and neither was willing to give an inch without a fight. Audrey was ambitious. She had a good head for business (unlike Hank) and wanted to be a singing star too. Country girl that she was, she loved country music. Problem is, her voice wasn’t nearly as good as she thought it was. Hank and Audrey, the duo she dreamed of, was never going to happen. She might have been able to match Hank’s stage persona, his innate charisma, his willingness to please others in song. But she couldn’t write and deliver as Hank could. There was only room for one star on stage and it was obvious to all, if not to her, that it would be Hank, not her.

Their time together was passionate and turbulent. The love was real but highly complicated, complications that made his songs. Without Audrey, or one like her, such songs could not have existed. “Cold, Cold Heart” is a portrait of what Hank felt when things fell apart. It is his errant love sonnet to her.

The film is faithful to what he went through: the first radio sessions, the first hit (“Lovesick Blues”), the first night on the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville. In between, bars and hamburger joints, cars and the highway, cheap motels, hospital rooms, stages to perform on. As time went on he became the dancing monkey on stage, the thing the world demanded. They didn’t see him that way, but he felt it. He felt everything acutely.

It wore him down and out. He was always thin and frail. The body couldn’t match the heart and soul. He burned brightly but it couldn’t last. It burned itself out when his heart finally gave out, aged just 29. But you can’t measure what happened to him or what he did in years. He lived by another time standard. Fast and furious, as they say. The arc he took is the one he had to. “Ain’t much choice, right?” That’s what he told the journalist in New York. He couldn’t say no to his fate.

Where is Hank in Leonard Cohen’s famous “Tower of Song”? He’s at the top, 100 floors above Leonard. Really? How could Leonard place him so high? Because Hank is the start of all things, the Book of Genesis in modern music: Chuck Berry and Eddie Cochrane and Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis before they were who they were. Elvis before Elvis. The Beatles before the Beatles. Leonard knew this. His poetry and novels would not sell. He couldn’t eat and pay his bills. So he picked up a guitar, learned a few chords, was on his way to Nashville from Montreal when he got sidetracked in New York City. Dylan, Ginsburg, Judy Collins and the others changed the trajectory of his own arc. New York for him, as it was for Dylan, would be the defining place, not Nashville. Leonard loved Hank and country but stayed true to what he really was — an urbane metropolitan, a beatnik and bohemian. Leonard in 10-gallon Stetsons and cowboy boots was a bad fit. It never could have happened, never would have looked right. But for Hank the get-up was everything. It was real and it was him.

All the memories of my dad and youth flooded back as I watched this beautiful film. Others will have their own memories. I was too young to have Hank touch me directly, but touch me he did through someone else who loved him deeply.

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jaycee

Great film about a great singer/songwriter

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2021

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I don't usually leave a review but this time I really wanted to. I had never been a fan of 'old country' until I saw Ken Burns Country Music documentary (also available on Amazon, a must for Country Music fans). Hank Williams life and song writing was a revelation. This film depicts his self destruction very well and Tom Hiddleston was extraordinary. His singing and mannerisms were amazing. Took about 5 minutes to tune into the accent but after that it was plain sailing. Actually bought this for my husband and I was glad I did.

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Nemo

The story of a musican who pushed boundaries

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2020

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I originally saw this film at the cinema. I was interested in the biographical side of the storyline, and openminded as to the music as well. I wasn't disappointed, Tom Hiddleston drew me in as though I was there observing this in reality. Having purchased this on bluray it hasn't lost anything on a smaller screen.

Christine MacAlister

Tom Hiddlestone is a revelation.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2018

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I really enjoyed this film. It was very evocative of the period, and Tom Hiddlestone`s singing voice was a revelation. He didn`t let his persona slip at all, and was, physically and vocally, very convincing as Hank Williams. I would thoroughly recommend this film to anyone.

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Ms. Hazel Hargraves

Probably very true to life

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2016

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I bought this for my Dad, a long time Hank Williams fan. He didn't like it much as I think he expected a film consisting of mainly music & a little narrative. I thought it was very well acted & probably portrayed the reality of Hank William's life. Tom Hiddlestone was very convincing in the lead role. Possibly more music would have been better for country fans. It was brave to tackle this story & I am surprised it has not had better reviews.

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