“Tender Mercies’ ultimate miracle is its faith in the audience. It assumes, perhaps unreasonably, that we are not so canned overblown effects that we cannot pick up on its quiet rhythms.”
Screened in tribute to Robert Duvall (1931 - 2026)
Robert Duvall stars as alcoholic, past-his-prime-and-down-on-his-luck country singer Mac Sledge, who is forced to take a job working in a motel for kindly widow, Rosa Lee (Tess Harper). As Mac begins to fall for Rosa, the opportunity for a career comeback surfaces, and Mac must choose between his new life and the life he let slip through his hands... Tender Mercies won Robert Duvall his only Academy Award in six nominations and his understated performances is one of the finest of his career.