The third of three low-keyed films with Robert Duvall depicting life in flyover country, 'Tender Mercies' reunites writer Horton Foote with star Robert Duvall twenty years after he made his film debut as Boo Radley. Duvall doesn't get to say much more in 'Tender Mercies' but nothing impresses the Academy more than a sophisticated urbanite playing a hick in a stetson and acknowledged that fact to the tune of an Acadamy Award.
The most eloquent aspect of the film is probably the Texas landscape which looks on impervously, which it obviously took an Australian director and cameraman to do it justice.
The most eloquent aspect of the film is probably the Texas landscape which looks on impervously, which it obviously took an Australian director and cameraman to do it justice.