Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Great Film overall

Fresh and Exciting

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

This is a very down to earth film story written by William Faulkner concerning a cotton farmer named Jackson Fentry, (Robert Duvall) who lives in the South and he is a poor person but also works as a watchman over a saw mill during the Winter. One day Jackson goes outside and hears the sound of a person in distress and discovers a woman, Sarah Eubanks, (Olga Belin) who is pregnant and he decides to help her and he takes good care of her. As the picture moves on the story becomes quite interesting and you will never be able to figure out just how this great film ends. The pace of this film is very slow and the actor Robert Duvall creates a great Southern accent and speaks his lines with a real Southern drawl along with a great actress, Olga Belin. Enjoy.

What zetes said. The movie is on TMC right now, chugging away in all earnestness, well-meaning and clueless as how to show really real reality. The directing all artsy lugubriousness. It's a mashup of the latest (as of 1972) method acting chops, 50s lung-heaving melodrama and trendy Euro bleakness. Nobody behaves the way people so in this film. No one, backwoods or anywhere, talks in one halting monotone and walks only at one lumbering speed. Real humans speed up, slow down, cheer up, pipe down, loosen up, get down. Maybe Tomorrow is a useful Before/After teaching tool. Duvall shows fearlessness, eagerly wrapping his glottis around some stupid Hollywood-hick accent. It's the fearlessness he would use to be among that exclusive crew who, in a way, solved Actor's Pi. They finally found the near-mystical ability to transform themselves on screen at what seems like the DNA level.

Bringing William Faulkner to the screen is as difficult as bringing Ernest Hemingway's works to life as a work of cinema. TOMORROW is a decent effort but is hampered by the monotone of Southern accents, especially the one affected by ROBERT DUVALL, as well as the overall drabness of the production which is so stark that it makes the story even more depressing and weary than the written word.Furthermore, there are long pauses between stretches of dialog, only a fraction of background music with the wind serving as the soundtrack for the first twenty-five minutes. So stark and slow that it becomes boring because the story is a slight one of a dirt poor farmer who stumbles upon a pregnant woman looking for shelter, takes her in, falls in love with her, and raises her child after she dies. He has a few brief years with the child on whom he lavishes only tender, loving care (as he promised the woman), and then his dreams are shattered by the arrival of her three brothers who want the child back.It's only during the last portion of the film that it gathers any excitement or strength as we see the kind man victimized by society, which makes his behavior reasonable, years later, when the framing story has him exerting a subtle sort of revenge.ROBERT DUVALL is excellent despite the use of an appalling Southern drawl, and OLGA BELLIN is convincing as the worn and weary pregnant woman, totally devoid of any glamor or make-up. But the first half-hour of the movie is relentlessly slow-paced, and the developing relationship between Duvall and Bellin is rather sketchily presented.The harrowing childbirth scene is in keeping with the total starkness of the tale which is downright depressing.Summing up: Stark and truthful, but hardly works as entertainment. The B&W photography throughout is drab and uninspired.

There are a few times when you discover an actor who just gets the characters right. The Col. in Apcolypse Now is very real (I was a Marine). Gus in Loansome Dove (I was raised by cowboys). The lead in Tender Mercies (my cousin is a country western star), etc. In this hard to find film you will see a great actor Duvall at his early best. A great author who builds a penetrating study in Faulkner. A great screenwriter play-write director Foote (who worked many time with Duvall and knows how to show him at his best). These all come together in a very special way. A film that is for actors and people who get it... not for the masses(may think it moves slow). This is a file for folks who see the little things that make craft Art. I Love the film and the black white works perfectly.