- Network: Lifetime
- Series Premiere Date: May 27, 2013
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In the end, even if you've seen if before, Ring of Fire is a better than average Lifetime movie that will leave viewers hand-clapping, singing along and maybe sniffling a little.
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If the acting isn’t remarkable, we get a sense of what life was like in one of country music’s royal families.
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It offers largely pedestrian observations of the difficulties of celebrity.
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The main problem here is that Carter was Cash's emotional rock, which is a great thing to have in your life but a bland thing to have as the peg for a film. [31 May/7 Jun 2013, p.127]
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The structure of the movie compels the two to operate without much in the way of backup singers, and the story casts June as such a noble, one-dimensional spirit, it doesn’t so much end as simply run out the clock. That said, some will no doubt be satisfied just to soak in the atmosphere and the music.
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Except for the chance to hear a few country classics, the movie doesn’t offer much else.
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Jewel’s renditions of the country classics is brilliant--and almost makes the movie worth watching. But that’s only if you record this endeavor and skip through the story.