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Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production Toggle |
Production subsection 3.1 Writing 3.2 Development 3.3 Casting 3.4 Filming 3.5 |
Music 4 Themes and interpretations Toggle Themes and interpretations |
subsection 4.1 Love and family 4.2 Religion 4.3 Death and resurrection 5 |
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Printable version From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1983 film by Bruce |
Beresford Tender Mercies Theatrical release poster Directed by Bruce Beresford |
Written by Horton Foote Produced by Philip S. Hobel Starring Robert Duvall |
Tess Harper Betty Buckley Wilford Brimley Ellen Barkin Cinematography Russell |
Boyd Edited by William Anderson Music by George Dreyfus Production companies |
EMI Films Antron Media Production Distributed by Universal Pictures Associated |
Film Distribution Release date March 4, 1983 ( 1983-03-04 ) (limited) Running |
time 92 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $4.5 million Box |
office $8.4 million [1] Tender Mercies is a 1983 American drama film directed |
by Bruce Beresford , featuring Robert Duvall as singer-songwriter Mac Sledge |
in a performance that won him an Academy Award . The Oscar-winning screenplay |
by Horton Foote focuses on Mac Sledge (Duvall), a former country music star |
whose career and relationship with his ex-wife and daughter were wrecked by |
alcoholism . Recovering from his affliction, Sledge seeks to turn his life |
around through his relationship with a young widow and her son in rural Texas |
. The supporting cast includes Tess Harper , Betty Buckley , Wilford Brimley , |
Ellen Barkin and Allan Hubbard. Financed by EMI Films , Tender Mercies was |
shot largely in Waxahachie, Texas . The script was rejected by several |
American directors before the Australian Beresford accepted it. Duvall, who |
sang his own songs in the film, drove more than 600 miles (1,000 km) |
throughout the state, tape recording local accents and playing in country |
music bands to prepare for the role. He and Beresford repeatedly clashed |
during production, at one point prompting the director to walk off the set and |
reportedly consider quitting the film. The film encompasses several themes, |
including the importance of love and family, the possibility of spiritual |
resurrection amid death and the concept of redemption through Mac Sledge's |
conversion to Christianity . Following poor test screening results, |
distributor Universal Pictures made little effort to publicise Tender Mercies |
, which Duvall attributed to the studio's lack of understanding of country |
music. The film was released on March 4, 1983, in a limited number of |
theatres. Although unsuccessful at the box office, it was critically acclaimed |
and earned five Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture . At the |
56th Academy Awards . Tender Mercies won Oscars for Best Original Screenplay |
for Foote and Duvall won the Academy Award for Best Actor . Plot [ edit ] Mac |
Sledge ( Robert Duvall ), a washed-up, alcoholic country singer, awakens at a |
run-down Texas roadside motel and gas station after a night of heavy drinking. |
He meets the owner, a young widow named Rosa Lee ( Tess Harper ), and offers |
to perform maintenance work at the motel in exchange for a room. Rosa, whose |
husband was killed in the Vietnam War , is raising her young son, Sonny (Allan |
Hubbard), on her own. She agrees to let Mac stay on condition that he does not |
drink while working. The two begin to develop feelings for each other, mostly |
during quiet evenings sitting alone and sharing parts of their life stories. |
Mac resolves to give up alcohol and start his life anew. After enough days of |
keeping his word and doing his work, he is comfortable enough in his new life |
that he and Rosa Lee wed. They start attending a Baptist church on a regular |
basis. One day, a newspaper reporter visits the motel and asks Mac whether he |
has stopped recording music and if he has deliberately chosen to lead an |
anonymous life. When Mac refuses to answer, the reporter explains he is |
writing a story about him and has interviewed his ex-wife, Dixie Scott ( Betty |
Buckley ), a country music star who is performing nearby. After the story is |
published, the neighbourhood learns of Mac's past, and members of a local |
country–western band visit him to show their respect. Although he greets them |
politely, Mac remains reluctant to open up about his past. Later, he secretly |
attends Dixie's concert. She passionately sings several songs that Mac wrote |
years earlier, and he leaves in the middle of the performance. Backstage, he |
talks to Dixie's manager, his old friend, Harry ( Wilford Brimley ). Mac gives |
him a copy of a new song he has written and asks him to show it to Dixie. Mac |
tries to talk to her but she becomes angry on seeing him and warns him to stay |
away from their 18-year-old daughter, Sue Anne ( Ellen Barkin ). On his return |
home, Mac assures Rosa Lee he no longer has any feelings for Dixie, whom he |
describes as "poison" to him. Later, Harry visits Mac to tell him, seemingly |
at Dixie's urging, that the country music business has changed and his new |
song is no good. Hurt and angry, Mac drives away and nearly crashes the truck. |
He buys a bottle of whiskey but, returning home to a worried Rosa Lee and |
Sonny, he tells them he poured it out. He says he tried to leave Rosa Lee, but |
found he could not. Some time later, Mac and Sonny are baptised together in |
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