Elvis (1979)

Made only two years after his death, this biopic follows the life of Elvis Presley from his early days in Tupelo, Mississippi to his comeback in the late 1960s. Kurt Russell plays the title character and he along with Shelly Winters as his doting mother work really well together in portraying that significant relationship. The film glosses over or ignores some of the seedier aspects of his life, but in general is a pretty good introduction to the life of the King. I was initially annoyed at how the setting for Graceland was simultaneously similar to the real place and yet got so much wrong, but then I reminded myself that there probably weren’t thousands of pictures of the house available to anyone at the drop of a hat when the film was made.