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Tender Mercies
Why this pick
Its quietly observed working-class setting and damaged father seeking a place in family life echo The War’s compassion for people rebuilding after pain.
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MOVIE1994 2h 6m USA
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Stephen, a PTSD Vietnam War, returns from a mental hospital, which he entered voluntarily because he was suffering from nightmares about the war and had in consequence lost three jobs in a row. After having been treated and finally coming home again, he gets a new job as custodial engineer at a grammar school, but loses it again within less than one week because of a law forbidding people who spent time in a mental hospital to work within the vicinity of children. However, the Simmons family desperately needs money, so Stephen continues looking for work, and finds a job picking potatoes. There he makes friends with a man called Moe Henry, with whose help he succeeds in obtaining a job working in a mine - his best one yet.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Elijah Wood
Stu Simmons
Christopher Fennell
Billy Lipnicki
Lucas Black
Ebb
Adam Henderson
Chet
Justin Lucas
Willard
Judson Vaughn
Soldier
Christine Baranski
Miss Strapford
Raynor Scheine
Mr. Lipnicki