Tender Mercies is a 1983 American drama film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay by Horton Foote focuses on Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country music singer. Robert Duvall plays the role of Mac; the supporting cast includes Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin and Allan Hubbard. Tender Mercie won Oscars for Best Original Screenplay for Foote andDuvall won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Tender Mercies is a 1983 American drama film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay by Horton Foote focuses on Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country music singer. Robert Duvall plays the role of Mac; the supporting cast includes Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin and Allan Hubbard. The film was released on March 4, 1983, in a limited number of theaters. Although unsuccessful at the box office, it was critically acclaimed and earned five Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture. Tender Mercie won Oscars for Best Original Screenplay for Foote andDuvall won the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film encompasses several different themes, including the importance of love and family, the possibility of spiritual resurrection amid death, and the concept of redemption throughMac Sledge’s conversion to Christianity. It was shot largely in Waxahachie, Texas, and was shot by EMI Films, which also produced The Godfather: Part II. The movie was released by Universal Pictures, which did not release it in the U.S. due to poor test screening results. It has been hailed as one of the best films of the 1980s and 1990s, along with The Lord’s War and The Descendants, both of which were released in the same year. It is also one of only a handful of films to have been released in both English and Spanish, and one of a few to be released in English and in both Spanish and Spanish.
It also won the Best Picture Oscar for the Best Director Academy Award, which was also awarded to Bruce beresford for TenderMercies. The soundtrack was produced by Steve McQueen, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film, and produced the soundtrack for the movie, as well as the film’s soundtrack, including some of Mac’s songs, including “On the Wings of a Dove” and “I’ll Be There For You” The film has been released on Blu-ray, DVD, and Blu-Ray in the United States, and on DVD in the UK and Australia. The U.K. has not yet released the film in Europe, but will release the Blu- ray and DVD versions of the film there in the near future. The DVD will also be available in Australia and the UK in the summer of 2015. The Blu- Ray version of the movie will be released at the end of the year in Australia, and in Europe in the fall of 2015 in Europe and the spring of 2016 in the US. TheBlu-Ray version will also feature the music video for “On The Wings of the Dove,” which was recorded by Mac in the early 1980s. It will also include a deleted scene of Mac singing to a young widow and her son, who is raised by Rosa Lee in a run-down Texas roadside motel. The two begin to develop feelings for one another, mostly during quiet evenings sitting alone and sharing bits of their life stories. After some time passes, he and Rosa Lee wed.
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