Texas Focus: Tender Mercies
Texas Spirit Theater | PG | 92 min. | Drama, Music
October 11, 2018 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Join the Bullock Museum for a screening and conversation about the Texas based film, Tender Mercies.
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.
Event Details
Tender Mercies, written by Texan, Horton Foote, was shot in and takes place in Texas. It had the additional element of the devotion of non-Texan actor Robert Duvall who traveled many miles throughout Texas gathering recordings of accents in order to stay true to the main character, Mac Sledge.
A cinematic exploration of the Texas narrative, the Museum's Texas Focus Film Series highlights stories by, for, and about Texans. This season's selections center around classic ideas of Texas and Texans as viewed on screen. This evening's program is shown in conjunction with our Spirit Theater Gallery Texas Film Poster exhibition, and includes a film screening and Q&A with writer and script supervisor, Anne Rapp. Doors will open at 6:30pm.
Please note: Entrance for this screening will be at the IMAX lobby doors.
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Rating: PG
Suggested age: 13+
Director: Bruce Beresford
Writer: Horton Foote
Runtime: 92 min.
Genre: Drama, Music
Release year: 1983
Tender Mercies was filmed in Arlington, Palmer and Waxahachie, Texas and also takes place in Texas.
Though unsuccessful at the box office, Tender Mercies won the Best Writing, Screenplay (Horton Foote) and Best Actor (Robert Duvall) Academy Award and was nominated for many other Academy Awards along with other prestigious award wins and nominations.
Anne Rapp is a writer and script supervisor in the movie industry who worked on more than 60 feature films, beginning with “Tender Mercies” in 1981 and ending with the HBO series “Westworld.” She has worked with many acclaimed directors including Jake Kasdan, Billy Bob Thornton, Judd Apatow, Harold Ramis, Ken Kwapis, Jonathan Nolan, Lawrence Kasdan, Sydney Pollack, Robert Benton, Bruce Beresford, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemekis, David Mamet, Rob Reiner, Bill Forsythe, Ivan Reitman and Tom Hanks. Writing short stories led to a job writing for Robert Altman who directed two of her screenplays, “Cookie’s Fortune” and “Dr. T and the Women.” The screenplayfor “Cookie’s Fortune” earned Anne an Independent Spirit Award nomination as well as an Edgar Allen Poe nomination. She wrote the musical “A Ride With Bob” for Ray Benson’s stage performance about the life and legacy of the western swing great Bob Wills. Anne has more recently written scripts for Alison Eastwood and Whoopi Goldberg and has several of her own scripts in development. She is currently producing and directing a documentary about the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and two-time Oscar winner, Horton Foote.
The Texas Spirit Theater located on the Bullock Museum's second floor is one of the most beautiful film experiences in Austin and features multi-sensory special effects such as lightning, rain, and other surprises.
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