Tender Mercies

Bruce Beresford's emotional drama features an Oscar-winning performance by Robert Duvall. When washed-up country singer Mac Sledge (Duvall) wakes up in a Texas motel with a hangover, he has reached the end of the line. With no money and nowhere else to go, he takes a job at the motel run by Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), a kind-hearted widow whose compassion allows Mac to change his ways and turn his life around. After getting married to Rosa, Mac is offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make a comeback with his music, but when he meets up with his own disaffected daughter (Ellen Barkin), Mac decides that he can't ruin someone's life ever again, and turns the offer down in order to stay with his new family.

Director: Bruce Beresford
Producer: Philip Hobel
Writer: Horton Foote
Music: Bobby Hart
Music: Austin Roberts
Actor: Robert Duvall
Actor: Tess Harper
Actor: Allan Hubbard
Actor: Betty Buckley
Actor: Ellen Barkin
Actor: Wilford Brimley
Actor: Paul Gleason
Actor: Lenny von Dohlen
Actor: Michael Crabtree
Actor: Norman Bennett
Music: George Dreyfus
Cinematographer: Russell Boyd