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From: Reviews and Criticism of Theatrical and Television Dramas (http://www.lasalle.edu/library/vietnam/FilmIndex/home.htm) compiled by John K. McAskill, La Salle University ([email protected])

T3630 (USA, 1983) (Other titles: Tendre bonheur)

Credits: director, ; writer, . Cast: , , , . Summary: Melodrama set in contemporary . Mac Sledge (Duvall), a down- and-out singer has recently broken up with his no-nonsense wife, also a country and singer. He goes on a bender and wakes up in a motel- gas station owned by Rosa Lee (Harper). She is a religious woman, as well as a Vietnam war widow, raising her son on her own. Lee offers Sledge a job and he stays on until they fall in love. Sledge proposes marriage. He also attempts to patch things up with his ex-wife and make a comeback but he soon realizes that show business is not for him and true happiness lies with Rosa and her son.

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