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| Tender Mercies | 
 enlarge | Director: Bruce Beresford
Actors: Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.98
Buy New: $4.09
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New (33) Used (23) from $4.07
Avg. Customer Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 1603
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 100
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: ANBD11469D
UPC: 013131146998
EAN: 0013131146998
ASIN: B00005R246
Theatrical Release Date: 1983
Release Date: April 16, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 God's tender mercies July 10, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Excellent film. Wonderful acting. Outstanding script about grace and redemption. One of my all time favorites.
 Spawned Some Knockoffs July 6, 2006
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
Tender Mercies from 1983 has spawned some knockoffs, made for TV films that you see on the Country Cable station. TM is still one of the best portrayals of poor Texas brush folks on flat, flat terrain. Sometimes tumbleweed tumbles by. Anyhow, one looks at that big sky and a country song comes to your lips. Robert Duvall plays Mac Sledge stoically in tight blue jeans and cowboy boots. Duvall slips off the Godfather set and takes that Texas accent where men sort of mumble homily's at a moments notice. Ah, he can't sing, but he gets a nice voiceover during a honky tonk gig.
So former country star Duval has fallen hard, but ends up at a rural Austin motel to take up with Tess Harper, a widow of the Vietnam War. Her young son needs a father. The ready made family makes do with gas station revenue while Duval dries out. Local citizens, boys in a garage band lure the has-been songwriter back into the music business. Former wife Trixie still hates his drunken ways and won't let Mac connect with his young daughter, teen Ellen Barker. After that, there's a tragedy.
I watched TM with a teen daughter and we enjoyed it. We're not talking Fellini or Welles here, but it kept me interested.
Tender Mercies February 19, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
A genuine sleeper! Robert Duvall's performance is impeccable as Mac. A great supporting cast. A small classic. Genuine "Must See"
"Tender Mercies" with Robert Duvall October 7, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the movie that he won his FIRST academy award for filmed in Seven Points Texas where he got to sing for the first time in his career at Cedar Creek Plowboys Club owned by Reba Anderson. This movie has a lot of meaning behind it and its a real cowboy type movie where he is down on his luck...divorce...coping with day to day from alcohol. Its a GREAT A++++ Movie...
A quiet drama set in Texas September 11, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A movie so low-key that it seems at times as empty as the Texas landscape it's filmed on. Robert Duvall is Mac Sledge, a down-and-out country singer who spends two drunken nights in a rundown motel on the Texas prairie, and then stays on and eventually marries the owner (Tess Harper). The story is told in fast cuts, in bits and pieces, with so much left out that even the characters don't know each other. There is something effective about it, though, at least on the surface, especially Duvall's quiet performance, that makes it enjoyable. The scene where Duvall's estranged daughter (played by Ellen Barkin) visits him and asks him to sing a song he used to sing to her as a little girl and he tells her he doesn't remember it, but as soon as she leaves he sings it to himself, is heartbreaking. And at the end Harper has that unsure look on her face, as she watches Duvall and her son (Allan Hubbard) toss a football around, indicating she knows anything still might happen in their relationship. A great little movie written by Horton Foote. Definitely worth a watch.
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