Tomorrow
by Joseph Anthony (II)
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Actor: Olga Bellin, Peter Masterson, Richard McConnell, Robert Duvall, Sudie BondDirector: Joseph Anthony (II)
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Homevision
DVD Reviews of Tomorrow
DVD Review: "I'll never leave unless you ask me to."
Summary: 5 Stars
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 on Horton Foote's adaptation of a story by William Faulkner, Fentry is a solitary, taciturn man, hardly an anomaly in that period, survival accomplished with a minimum of comfort and much labor. Accepting a job as caretaker of a Tupelo sawmill, Fentry settles into a quiet existence, adapting easily to his circumstances.
Preparing to walk to his father's farm thirty-one miles away the day before Christmas, Fentry is distracted by moans originating in the sawmill. He discovers a pregnant woman (Olga Bellin), collapsed in exhaustion. Embarrassed by her predicament, the woman wants only to "get my strength back" before moving on, but Fentry senses her frailty, guiding her into his shack. She is clearly unwell. In an act of instinctive generosity, Fentry offers her shelter until the child is born. What ensues is a delicate, respectful relationship ("Yessir", "No, Ma'am"), a compassionate loner offering protection to a woman abandoned by her husband, cast out after her marriage by her father and three brothers. The emotional nuances between these two characters beautifully balanced, Sarah tentative and trusting, Fentry revealing a depth of character and capacity for love belied by his restricted circumstances. This gentle, frightened woman blossoms under the tender care of the stranger who offers shelter.
As the birth draws near, Sarah speaks of her fear of dying, exacting a promise from Fentry that he will raise her child if something happens to her. After the birth, Fentry cradles the infant boy, declaring him "my son"; Sarah agrees to marry him since her lawful husband is in the wind. Thus pass the happiest days of Fentry's life, the boy the center of his existence until circumstances conspire against Fentry, his joy extinguished in one devastating afternoon until the scene in the courtroom twenty years later. Duvall is superb in Faulkner's dark drama, his spirit shining through a character with an infinite and previously untapped capacity for love. The dialog is simple, powerful in the hands of Duvall and Bellin, who embrace their brief encounter. Duvall transcends the screen, his monotone bringing to mind Billy Bob Thornton's inflections in "Sling Blade" (perhaps Thornton's inspiration?). Vivid against a stark landscape, Duvall creates magic, a touching, evocative film, a lonely man seizing an opportunity seldom encountered in his barren world. Luan Gaines/ 2008.
Description of Tomorrow
Starring Robert Duvall in his breakthrough screen role, Tomorrow is a poignant tale based on a short story by William Faulkner, and scripted by Academy AwardŽ winner Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies). Duvall is Jackson Fentry, a young manwho leaves his father?s farm to work at a local sawmill. Fentry rescues a young pregnant woman, who has been abandoned by her husband and family, and the two fall in love. Shot in black and white to convey the feel of the Depression era, Tomorrow remains the finest screen translation of Faulkner?s vision of the South.
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
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