Tender Mercies (1983)

Directed by Bruce Beresford

A country singer named Mac Sledge – and if that isn’t a name of a country singer, I don’t know what is – a drunk and out of money and luck, shows up at a small motel and gas station in the plains of Texas.  All is grassland and sun and sky, as far as the eye can see.  There’s only a young woman and her ten-year-old son who live at the place.  She’s a wi…