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Tender Mercies

1983, Movie, PG, 89 mins

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VIDEO: Tender Mercies -- (Movie Clip) Open, Two Days

Motel owner Tess Harper observes some rough business involving guest Robert Duvall, as Lefty Frizzell's "It Hurts To Face Reality" opens Bruce Beresford's Tender Mercies, 1983, from a script by Horton Foote. watch

VIDEO: Tender Mercies -- (Movie Clip) Writin' Songs

New step-father Mac (Robert Duvall, with a song he wrote) shows some musical technique to Sonny (Allan Hubbard), mother Rosa (Tess Harper) busy in the kitchen, in Tender Mercies, from Horton Foote's original screenplay. watch

VIDEO: Tender Mercies -- (Movie Clip) Ain't No Good

Ex-manager (Wilford Brimley) tells ex-country star Mac (Robert Duvall) his ex-wife doesn't like his new song, and new wife (Tess Harper) tries to console him, in Tender Mercies, 1983, from Horton Foote's screenplay. watch

Quick story progress as drifter Mac (Robert Duvall) attends church with his employer Rosa (Tess Harper) and their relationship evolves, in Tender Mercies, 1983, directed by Bruce Beresford from Horton Foote's screenplay.
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Posted: 1/8/2010
Robert Duvall gives one of his greatest performances as a has-been country singer who finds love in Tender Mercies (1983).
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Posted: 8/1/2008
An alcoholic has-been country singer is inspired to attempt a comeback by a Texan woman. Oscar-winning performance by Duvall!
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Length: 01:03
Posted: 3/17/2008
Academy Award winner Robert Duvall headlines this touching story of a down-and-out country singer named Mac and the young widow (Tess Harper) he meets in a small Texas town. But as their relationship blossoms, Mac s years of hard living resurface when his music star ex-wife (Betty Buckley) appears in a nearby town, bringing his estranged daughter (Ellen Barkin) with her. Will Mac s painful past lead him toward an uncertain future or will he find a way to move past his sorrow and start a fresh new life?
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Length: 01:31:36
Posted: 7/15/2009
Year: 1983
Rated PG

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Cast
Robert Duvall: Mac Sledge
Tess Harper: Rosa Lee
Betty Buckley: Dixie
Wilford Brimley: Harry
Ellen Barkin: Sue Anne
Allan Hubbard: Sonny

 

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Trail Leads Robert Duvall Back to TV

It is, as they say out on the range, a sight for sore eyes to see Robert Duvall back on TV in AMC's first-ever original movie, Broken Trail. The two-part, four-hour film (airing Sunday and Monday at 8 pm/ET) stars Duvall as grizzled cowboy Print Ritter, who leads his estranged, taciturn nephew Tom Harte (Thomas Haden Church) on a harrowing horse drive from Oregon to Wyoming.

The ragtag travelers embark on your classic Western odyssey, complete with smallpox, bloodshed and outlaws, but with a twist: Duvall, who also served as executive producer, was intent on putting people, not shoot-'em-ups, center stage. "I tried to say, 'Let's just keep this very s read more

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