That Evening Sun

The actors are more than successful at creating deeply plausible characters. There may have been temptations to go broad, but they're all subtle...

...characters see things from anyone else's angle except their own...it's to the director's credit that he grants all of these angles fair expression and that, when seen from the perspective of each character, they all seem equally valid.

...a subtle little wonder in which every single element works.

...will attract critical praise and positive word of mouth to help offset the commercial challenges facing independent, rural-set dramas.

Hal Holbrook was born to play sly, cantankerous rascals. In the likably dawdling Southern heart-tugger That Evening Sun, he's Abner Meecham, a crusty old retired Tennessee farmer who breaks out of a nursing home to return to his land...