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" When it comes to this annual celluloid event, it's clear that the times they are a-changin' - " and that was more evident on Saturday than on the fest's previous two days.

Can a movie with this title possibly have a sense of humor? Well, not much of a one: but not everyone involved can be kept totally in line, and there are flashes of humorousness -- or at least humannness -- from Beau Bridges, Tess Harper, Patrika Darbo, and Molly McClure .

The unwanted gift of a bedside revolver sets off an oblique chain reaction: a feasible suspense plot treated in a cool, hip, suspense-snubbing way .

Actress Rose-Marie is 86. Actor Mike Connors is 84. Actress Pat Priest is 73. Drummer Pete York of the Spencer Davis Group is 67.

Tess Harper, Allan Hubbard and Robert Duvall in "Tender Mercies." Tender Mercies by Roger Ebert "Tender Mercies" won Robert Duvall his only Academy Award in six nominations.

Robert Duvall headlines this 1983 story of a down-and-out country singer named Mac and the young widow he meets in a small Texas town.