Tender Mercies (1983)
Release Date: 03 June 2013
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Product Details
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 is 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.Special Features
Miracles and Mercies: A Look Back – Retrospective documentary with Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Alan Hubbard, Director Bruce Beresford and Writer Horton Foote
Technical Details
Region 2
Sound: Dolby Digital
Running Time: 88 minutes
Production Year: 1982
Main Language: English