Tender Mercies (1983)

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Robert Duvall won an Academy Award for his brilliant performance as Mac Sledge, a down-and-out country singer who is weaned off the bottle and finds happiness while staying with widow Rosa Lee (Tess Harper) and her young son (Allan Hubbard). Mac and Rosa Lee marry, but he must come to terms with his relationships with his ex-wife (Betty Buckley) and the daughter (Ellen Barkin) he hasn't seen in years. Wilford Brimley co-stars in director Bruce Beresford's poignant character study.

Academy Award winner Robert Duvall headlines this touching story of a down-and-out country singer named Mac and the young widow (Tess Harper) he meets in a small Texas town. But as their relationship blossoms, Mac`s years of hard living resurface when his music star ex-wife (Betty Buckley) appears bringing his estranged daughter (Ellen Barkin) with her. Will Mac`s painful past lead him toward an uncertain future - or will he find a way to move past his sorrow and start a fresh new life?