[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

One of my favorite Duvall film’s is “Second-hand Lions.” It’s about a kid who inherits a bunch of money from his Uncles. Just a great family movie.

[Chgogal]

It is a great family movie that Hollywood used to make. Duvall was just wonderful, Cane was the best brother ever and Haley the best nephew ever. Love that fight at the diner. : )

[funfan]

I loved him in the Great Santini.

[Maine Mariner]

I love that movie too! Especially the scene with the salesman who actually sells something to the brothers-a skeet throwing machine.

[crazycatlady]

I think one of my favorites is True Confessions, a re-imagining of the Black Dahlia murder case in post World War II LA( far better than the Dahlia movie with Scarlett Johanson)Robert Duvall and Robert DeNiro play brothers, one a cop, one a priest, both flawed.

[re_nortex]

I'll go out on a bit of limb and add Tender Mercies to the list of exceptional Robert Duvall films.

The reason why I prefaced my recommendation with "out on a limb" is that those preferring action movies will be greatly disappointed as I found out when I screened it for some colleagues a few years back. There are no exploding cars, eye-dazzling special effects and not a single gunshot is fired in the ~90 minute runtime. They derided Tender Mercies as a boring chick flick.

Instead what makes this gentle film, for which Duvall won a much-deserved Oscar, so compelling is its story of redemption as a broken-down country singer, Mac Sledge (Duvall), turns his life around thanks to the Christian love of Rosa Lee (Tess Harper, known nowadays as Jesse Pinkman's mom in Breaking Bad). Above and beyond the finely crafted story, is its depiction of Texas, the South and, most of all, Christianity. There's not the typical mocking of the Southern Evangelical. Instead the scene of Mac Sledge's baptism in a Conservative Texas church is handled with respect and dignity. And if you don't get a wee bit misty-eyed when Sledge sings "Wings of a Dove", then you're lying! :)

Yes, sure I like Duvall as Tom Hagen, "Bull" Meechum and even Boo Radley, but I think his role as Mac Sledge is his finest.

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I pinged you ansel12 since I think you might like it if you haven't already seen it.

[blueyon]

“One of my favorite Duvall film’s is “Second-hand Lions.” It’s about a kid who inherits a bunch of money from his Uncles. Just a great family movie.”

I LOVE that movie also

[BwanaNdege]

Absolute classic movie!

Best line in the movie:

Shortly after the death of the two brothers (killed when trying to fly their homebuilt biplane THROUGH the barn.... upside down), the son of their Arab adversary lands at the old house in his private/Corporate helicopter (Sikorsky S-76, IIRC), with his young son in tow.

The now-adult Walter meets them and the rich Arab introduces his son to Walter, “the nephew of the men about whom grandfather told all those stories”.

The grandson says, “You mean they really lived?”

Water replies, “Oh yeah, they REALLY lived!”

I love that movie!

[Bulwyf]

I think that show is great too. I was pleasantly surprised when I first saw it.

Thanks Robert Duvall for standing up and going against the Hollywood grain.