Where was Tender Mercies filmed?

1983 film directed by Bruce Beresford

Tender Mercies (1983) was filmed in Dallas, Ellis County, Waxahachie and Palmer, 4 places named in its Wikipedia article, in the United States. Wikidata itself records the shoot only as Texas. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement, and every claim on this page says which it is.

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Places per Wikipedia's article

The article names 4 places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Places whose own article says it was shot there

2 places whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.

• Palmer United States

  “Portions of Tender Mercies, a 1983 film about a country western singer, were filmed in Palmer, although the majority was filmed in Waxahachie.” Wikipedia

• Waxahachie United States

  “The 1983 film Tender Mercies was filmed in Waxahachie, as well as the 1984 film Places in the Heart.” Wikipedia

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in Texas, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

Filming locations that are mapped there: United States

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