Title: Tender Mercies
Product review: So often the Academy Awards get it wrong. When the Academy gave Duvall Best Actor for portraying former country singer Max Sledge and Horton Foote Best Screenplay, they got it right. Though, Bruce Beresford should have gotten Best Director as well.This is a quiet, gentle film. But it's powerful emotions build and linger. It is a story of redemption, marveling at grace and yet also puzzling over grace withheld.Hollywood rarely turns the cameras on the red states and even more rarely on Evangelical Christians and even more rarely does so with compassion and understanding. (One of the few other films that does these things well also stars Robert Duvall, "The Apostle", which Duvall also wrote and directed.)Tess Harper is also very good in the film as the woman who takes in a lost, lonely man. Look for Ellen Barkin, so young that it takes time to recognize her as Sledge's daughter.Wonderful film.
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