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Hace 3 días · Directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Horton Foote, “Tender Mercies” tells the poignant story of a washed-up country singer, played masterfully by Robert Duvall, who finds redemption and a second chance at life through unexpected circumstances.
Hace 3 días · Image Credit Universal Pictures. For such a low-key drama about the fall and rise of a country singer, Tender Mercies feels surprisingly tense. Director Bruce Beresford, who would later go on to make Driving Miss Daisy, wants to steer the movie toward sentimentalism, heightening the emotion in washed-up country singer Mac Sledge’s (Duvall) romance with widowed single mother Rosa Lee (Tess ...
Hace 2 días · Reflection 3- 19.5.24 “It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassion fails not” (Lamentations 3:22) I am confident that you would agree that “the LORD is good to all [of us]: and his tender mercies are over all his works” (Psalm 145:9). This is evidently revealed in the awesomeness…
Hace 4 días · On Apr. 18, 1993, on Divine Mercy Sunday, tens of thousands attending the beatification of St. Faustina listened as Pope John Paul II told them during Mass: It is truly marvelous how her devotion to the merciful Jesus is spreading in our contemporary world and gaining so many human hearts!
Hace 1 día · Preachers who wish to focus on the “Trinity” in “Trinity Sunday” will benefit richly from consulting those works. But preachers who wish to take a slightly different approach to Romans 8:12-17 might pay close attention to what it says about the Spirit’s interaction and work with Jesus’ friends’ spirits. That’s certainly an ...
Hace 4 días · Tender Mercies, like Raggedy Man, is a tale of redemption and second chances set in the American South. Its lead character's personal journey, underscored by a country music theme, echoes the resilience and emotional complexities found in Sissy Spacek's character in Raggedy Man.
Hace 5 días · Allenby lived in an era without the tender mercies of agony aunts, therapy and TV chat shows. As with so many others of his generation, he got on with his life and grieved in private. As Allenby's diaries were lost after the war, it is not easy to find a way into Allenby the man, rather than Allenby the myth.
