Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Tender mercies [videorecording] / Studio Canal ; Antron Media Production ; produced by Philip S. Hobel ; written by Horton Foote ; directed by Bruce Beresford.

Edition:

Widescreen version.

Publisher, Date:

Santa Monica, Calif. : Lions Gate Films, Inc., c2009.

Description:

1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

An alcoholic drifter comes into the life of a lonely widow and her young son in the barren flatlands of Texas. But when Mac is revealed to be a once-famous country singer, he must confront a painful past that includes his bitter superstar ex-wife.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: PG.

Subjects:

Alcoholics -- Texas -- Drama.

Widows -- Texas -- Drama.

Country musicians -- Texas -- Drama.

Mothers and sons -- Drama.

Husband and wife -- Drama.

Fathers and daughters -- Drama.

Divorced people -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Hobel, Philip.

Foote, Horton.

Beresford, Bruce.

Boyd, Russell, 1944-

Anderson, William, 1948-

Dreyfus, George.

Duvall, Robert.

Harper, Tess.

Hubbard, Allan.

Buckley, Betty.

Barkin, Ellen, 1954-

Brimley, Wilford, 1934-2020

Lions Gate Films (Santa Monica, Calif.)

Studio Canal.

Antron Media Production (Firm)

Lions Gate Home Entertainment.

Notes:

Motion picture.

Originally produced in 1982. Released in 1983.

Special features: "Miracles & mercies" featurette - featuring interviews with stars Robert Duvall, Tess Harper and Allan Hubbard, director Bruce Beresford, and writer/co-producer Horton Foote; theatrical trailer.

Producer, Philip S. Hobel ; director, Bruce Beresford ; director of photography, Russell Boyd ; editor, William Anderson ; music, George Dreyfus ; writer, Horton Foote .

Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Allan Hubbard, Betty Buckley, Ellen Barkin, Wilford Brimley.

Filmed on location in Palmer, Texas.

Issued also on film.

DVD format ; NTSC ; Dolby digital monaural audio ; widescreen (16x9).

English or French dialogue; Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Academy Awards for best actor (Robert Duvall) and best screenplay, 1983.

ISBN:

9786312867401

Publisher Number:

25630

Other Number:

351740456

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

327648

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Tender m

Medium:

[videorecording]