Tender Mercies

Tender Mercies
by Bruce Beresford

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Actor: Betty Buckley, Ellen Barkin, Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Wilford Brimley
Director: Bruce Beresford
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-16
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay

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Movie Review: Wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a film where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. It is well written, cast, acted and directed, yet the overall final product is one of the best "quiet" films ever. I'm not a country music fan, but the music is perfectly in context with the story and one compliments the other extremely well. This may be Robert Duvall's finest work. I think if it came out in 2008 it would contend for Best Picture honors.

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Summary of Tender Mercies

Robert duvall stars as mac sledge an alcoholic drifter who comes into the life of a lonely widow and her young son in the barren flatlands of texas. But when mac is revealed to be a once-famous country singer he must confront a painful past that includes his bitter superstar ex-wife. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 04/16/2002 Starring: Robert Duvall Betty Buckley Run time: 92 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Bruce Beresford

Sometimes everything comes together in a movie and it becomes something so much greater than the sum of its parts that it can only be described as a miracle. That's the case with Tender Mercies, a quietly luminous character piece about an alcoholic, washed-up country singer named Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall in an Oscar-winning performance) who hits bottom in a motel room one night and then slowly finds his way back into the land of the living with the help of the widow (Tess Harper) and her young son. It's a low-key, contemplative film that feels like a rural American family comedy in the vein of the great Japanese director, Yasujiro Ozu. Tender Mercies was directed by Australian Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Breaker Morant), written by Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird), who won an Oscar for his screenplay, and has an unbeatable cast. This is one of Duvall's most intimate and deeply personal performances, matched only by his debut 14 years later as actor-writer-director in The Apostle. --Jim Emerson

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