Has anybody watched the Kino Lorber Blu-ray of Tender Mercies (1983), and if so, then did you have the same experience I had yesterday?

· The sound drops out for two lines of dialogue during the first meeting between Mac (Robert Duvall) and Harry (Wilford Brimley), just outside of the concert hall where Dixie is performing.

· In the theatrical release and on the Anchor Bay DVD, during the film’s last sequence, when Mac is playing football catch with Sonny, we hear the Craig Bickhardt song, “You are What Love Means to Me,” which continues over the end credits. My Kino Lorber disc has a flowery, completely-out-of-place, instrumental instead.

I’ve emailed and left a voicemail for Kino Lorber about this and am awaiting their response.

On this issue, I would assume the original song was replaced due to licensing problems. Happens frequently to older movies, unfortunately.

Josh—thanks for the reply. Yes, now that you mention it I can imagine something like that happening. It's unfortunate because in this case it's the equivalent to hearing a hip-hop song at the end of The Ten Commandments.

Also, I did hear back from Kino Lorber in less than twenty-four hours. They were apologetic and said I can send the Blu-ray back to them (I have to pay for shipping) and they'll refund my money.

I thought they had to clearly label when they replace music? This did happen to “Fatal Instinct” on Blu-ray but I heard it was actually the wrong master and they issued a corrected version of that. Nice of Kino to let you send it back at least, but they’ve messed up a number of titles inexcusably (mainly several with mono audio when they should have been stereo). I’ve heard they plan to release “The Wild Life” with music replacements as it’s always been on video so won’t be buying that.