Robert Duvall's Oscar (and Golden Globe) win; Horton Foote's screenplay won also (he adapted To Kill a Mocking Bird). It was Beresford's (and regular editor William Anderson's) first American film, and he compared the desolate community living in rural Texas as similar to that of the Australian outback. Beresford I should remind us directed A Good Man in Africa and Mister Johnson, as well as Driving Miss Daisy and Breaker Morant.
It's a very quiet (and thus you notice the really good sound design) film, almost European in its laid backness. Duvall sang all the songs and indeed wrote a couple of them himself in tale of singer's redemption. It's quietly moving.
Tess Harper is the saviour and Allan Hubbard rather good as her young son. Betty Buckley is Duvall's ex and Ellen Barkin their daughter, Wilford Brimley the manager; Norman Bennett is familiar to us from Terms of Endearment.
Russell Boyd photographed it evocatively. Chris Newman is the sound mixer, Maurice Schell is the supervising sound editor and our old friend Dick Vorisek supervised the rerecording.
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