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Tender MerciesDuvall is Hollywood's oddest leading man. Perhaps that's because his connections with Hollywood are only nominal. He's a product and an advocate of the Southern sensibility, a strange, fundamentalist, isolationist territory whose images US cinema has largely declined to export - a kind of Iran hidden at the heart of America. Here, as Mac Sledge, a country and western singer going through an existential crisis, Duvall exhibits an almost insane dignity - which eclipses anything Beresford might be trying to do with the camera. Watch this and The Apostle back to back, and you'll get a good measure of Duvall's eerie, utterly uncompromising talent.
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