For scriptwriter Horton Foote, this is a return to the milieu of Baby, the Rain Must Fall, a movie that conveyed to perfection the sensibility and the storyline of a country-western ballad -- and long before it was fashionable to do so. But Foote has whittled away at the plot, at the psychology, at the social milieu, at anything to really grab hold of, until there is not much left. One possible benefit, however, of the austerity policy in force here, is that the viewer will decide (as numerous critics did) that there is so little else in the movie that there must at least be strength and integrity -- nice names for the lack of entertainment. With Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, and Betty Buckley; directed by Bruce Beresford. (1983) — Duncan Shepherd
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