Tender Mercies
- IMDb link: 0086423
- IMDb rating: 7.3 (14,516 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, Music
- Director: Bruce Beresford, Robert Duvall
- Cast: Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley and others
- Release date: 4 Mar 1983
- Release year: 1983
- Runtime: 92 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: singer, family relationships, country music, widow, mother son relationship, mother daughter relationship, wealth, wandering, texas, stepfather
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A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.
An alcoholic drifter, Mac Sledge, finds himself in a small Texas town. He gets a job doing handyman work for Rosa Lee a widow with a 10-year old son. Over time, a relationship develops between Mac and Rosa Lee and they get married. In due course it is revealed that Mac was a famous country singer with an equally-famous country singing wife, but alcohol ended their marriage and his career. After trying to turn his back on his former life, Mac now tries to reconcile his old life with his new.
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