I Saw the Light

Terrific, nostalgic songs highlight this insightful, factually based, unevenly focused, star-dotted (Bradley Whitford, Cherry Jones, and David Krumholtz, 123-minute, 2015 film based on Colin Escott's biographical novel Hank Williams: The Biography that chronicles the short legendary career and tumultuous life of alcoholic Alabama singer/songwriter Hank Williams (Thomas William Hiddleston) from his marriage to Audrey (Elizabeth Chase "Lizzie" Olsen) in 1944, his quick rise to fame in the country music arena composing more than thirty-three singles (such as, Hey, Good Lookin', Your Cheatin' Heart, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Honky Tonk Blues, Jambalaya (On the Bayou), I Saw the Light, Take These Chains from My Heart, Move It on Over, and Ramblin' Man) in six years, to his untimely death at 29 years old to heart disease on Jan. 1., 1953, shortly after marrying his second wife Billie Jean Jones (Madelaine "Maddie" Hasson) in Oct. 1952.
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