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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780764006791
Format: Black & White, Original recording reissued, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 0764006797
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 33594
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Based on the William Faulkner story and featuring one of Robert Duvall's finest performances, Tomorrow was first adapted by Horton Foote for TV's Playhouse 90 in 1960. Eight years later, Foote--whose script for To Kill a Mockingbird provided Duvall's screen debut--presented the same story as an off-Broadway play with Duvall and Olga Bellin in the lead roles, which they reprised in 1971 for this independently produced film.
As with Tender Mercies--which earned Academy Awards for both Foote and Duvall in 1983--Tomorrow tells a simple tale of gentle people, and the sensitive script, direction, and performances offer an enlightening portrait of compassion and unconditional love. Duvall plays Fentry, a Mississippi cotton farmer in the early 1900s who leaves his father's farm to work as the winter watchman of a dormant sawmill. There, he encounters Sarah (Bellin), a pregnant woman abandoned by her husband and suffering from a life-threatening illness. They eventually marry, but inevitably, Fentry (portrayed by Duvall as a kind of holy innocent) alone must raise the woman's child--a good-natured boy whose fate is determined by a heartbreaking claim of familial custody.
The story is framed by a murder trial, the outcome of which leads to the film's resonant and quietly moving conclusion. Like so much of Foote's work, Tomorrow was tailor-made for Duvall, and it has much to say about endurance, integrity, and uncommon decency under difficult circumstances. Directed by Joseph Anthony with an appropriately somber tone, this delicate drama nevertheless offers a wise and uplifting affirmation of the resilient human spirit. For Duvall's many admirers, this is a must-see film. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Cinematic Masterpiece
After so many painful memories of too many Lit classes with far too much Faulkner I almost turned off this movie the minute the announcer on TCM said his name in relation to this movie. Well I'm glad I did, though I can't say this movie hasn't cost me. This is not a feel good movie, it rips your heart out. I don't tend to like Faulkner, he always seemed a bit pretentious in comparison with contemporaries like Hemingway. This movie/story is as far from pretentious as anything could be but with all ... Read More
Rating: - "I'll never leave unless you ask me to."
The drama opens in a Mississippi courtroom in the early 1900s, an attorney pleading with a jury to find his client innocent of murdering a young man, claiming the man was defending his daughter's honor. Jury deliberation is shanghaied by one man, Jackson Fentry (Robert Duvall), causing a mistrial. The attorney makes it his business to learn more about Fentry, a story beginning twenty years earlier, declaring, "If I knew then what I know now, he would never have sat on this journey." Based ... Read More
Rating:  - Two lonely people . . .
This is a movie for fans of a) William Faulkner, b) Horton Foote, c) Robert Duvall, and d) stage plays. Viewers unused to the pace of drama as written for the stage will find this adaptation of Foote's play slow and wordy. Confined mostly to the four walls of a shack, the action will seem claustrophobic at times. But the performances are wonderful, and Foote's always gentle vision of everyday people struggling for love and against loneliness makes the relationship between the story's two central characters ... Read More
Rating:  - I can't believe I spent this much money on this.
I should have paid more attention to K. Williams' review. We disagree on one point, though. Williams thinks the movie is too long. I think that any length would be too long.
Yes, the acting is excellent, but in order to create a good movie you absolutely must start with a good script. This one just drags on and on. I stayed with the movie all the way to the end, thinking that, with all the 5-star reviews, there must eventually be something to this boring story. Wrong!
I rarely ... Read More
Rating: - TOMORROW
RATING-PG for thematic elements. There is one intense scene of pain during childbirth but nothing explicit. A murder happens on-screen but nothing graphic or closeup.
STARRING-Robert Duvall. Screenplay by Horton Foote.
THEME-Unconditional love and compassion.
STORY-Based on a short story by William Faulkner, the film opens with the brief flashback of a night scene where a young man and woman are apparently trying to elope without her parent's knowledge. The family is aroused ... Read More
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