It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

A compassionate love story tracing the relationship between a burnt-out Country & Western star and the young widow he meets in a Texas motel. His career at an all time low and his previous relationship haunting, he hides at the bottom of a bottle but through her love and inspiration he learns to give thanks for tender, if small, mercies. Won Best Actor (Robert Duvall) and Best Screenplay (Horton Foote) at the 1982 Academy Awards. find out more...