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Tender Mercies
1982
A compassionate love story tracing the relationship between a burnt-out Country and Western star and the young widow he meets in a Texas motel. Read more
| Starring | Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin |
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| Director | Bruce Beresford |
| Genres | Drama |
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Tender Mercies
A compassionate love story tracing the relationship between a burnt-out Country and Western star and the young widow he meets in a Texas motel.
| Starring | Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin, Betty Buckley |
|---|---|
| Director | Bruce Beresford |
| Studio | CINEMA CLUB |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 28 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 22 Jun 1999 Production year: 1982 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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A spare, lean performance from spare, lean Robert Duvall won him his first and (so far) only Oscar. Duvall wakes up, after a drunken binge, in a Texan motel owned by religious widow Tess Harper and her young son Allan Hubbard. Having failed once in both his life and career as a country singer (Duvall sings his own songs) he hesitatingly tries again with Harper. Australian director Bruce Beresford shows a sympathetic connection to the hot dusty Texan locations for his first Hollywood film and screenwriter Horton Foote (who also won an Oscar) provides a realistic pace. As with Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, the episodic and atmospheric story is a poignant portrayal of redemption.
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Quiet, downbeat character study with scenic Texas backgrounds. Mildly impressive, but no real reason to go to the cinema.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
worth while
Horton Foote's screenplay captures the world of country music well. The lead characters back-story is divied out perfectly, you actually get to think about it and appreciate where his life is heading since his fall. But his fortunes are left to your imagination instead of a bunch of redundant scenes showing his second coming as a once famous country crooner. Robert Duvall is excellent as are all the others. I especially liked the storyline concerning his daughter who fumbles back into his life despite the threats of his hysterical ex-wife. well paced and thoughtful.
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0 out of 1 person found this review helpful
forget sleepin tablets!!!!
having trouble sleepin at night? hire this film for a quick remedy....its sooooo boooor (yawn) ing.
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News and features
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Top screenwriter and playwright Foote dead at 92
- 05 Mar 2009
The Pulitzer Prize and Oscar-winning screenwriter behind movie classics To Kill A Mockingbird and Tender Mercies has died. Horton Foote was working on a production of one of his plays in Hartford, Connecticut, when he died. He was 92. Foote, who was born in Texas, won screenplay Oscars in 1962 and 1983 for To Kill A Mockingbird and Tender Mercies respectively. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his play The Man From Atlanta. Read more
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