Rent Tender Mercies (1983)
3.6 of 5 from 84 ratings
1h 28min
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- Synopsis:
Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall) is down and out. A former American music legend, Mac is now an alcoholic whose fall from grace has left him washed up as he wakes up broke and alone on a Texas motel room floor. When the motel owner Rosa Lee (Tess Harper) finds Mac penniless and with nowhere to go she takes pity on him, offering him work at the motel in exchange for a room. Mac and Rosa soon fall in love, and desperate to turn his fortunes around, Mac resolves to salvage his both his career as a musician and his relationship with his estranged daughter, SueAnn (Ellen Barkin) However, standing in his way his Dixie Scott, Mac's ex-wife, a successful singer who refuses to help his career and put him in touch with his daughter. Still shameful of his past, Dixie threatens to ruin Mac's ambitions, pushing him dangerously close to his old self-destructive ways. - Actors:
- Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin, Allan Hubbard, Lenny von Dohlen, Paul Gleason, Michael Crabtree, Norman Bennett, Andrew Scott Hollon, Rick Murray, Stephen Funchess, Glen Fleming, James Aaron, Jerry Biggs, Sheila Bird, Robert E. Blackburn III, Eli Cummins, Tony Frank
- Directors:
- Bruce Beresford
- Producers:
- Philip Hobel
- Writers:
- Horton Foote
- Others:
- Horton Foote, Bobby Hart, Austin Roberts
- Aka:
- Comeback der Liebe
- Studio:
- StudioCanal
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Drama, Music & Musicals, Romance
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Reviews (1) of Tender Mercies
Gentle, tender and moving. - Tender Mercies review by CP Customer
An excellent low key drama which revolves around the character of Mac, a washed up county singer who wakes up in a motel room after a night of binge drinking. Unable to pay his bill he offers to work for the owner, a young widow who has a son, and after the couple begin a relationship and Mac turns his back on fame and settles into a more emotionally fulling life, it's not long before his past comes back to haunt him. The acting is top notch and the gentle story hooks you from start to end. An absolute classic.
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