1966 · drama · romance
Tenderness
Directed by John Polson1h 41m1966
A hardened cop tries to unravel the past to discover whether a violent teenager was responsible for the murder of his family. A confused fifteen-year-old runaway becomes enthralled with the young man.
Our read: Tenderness (1966) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
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