Alone/Horton Foote's Alone (1997)

A cable movie mixing sadness and hope held together by Hume Cronyn's doughty survivor.  A widower he manages to muddle through without any real help from his family who are all too invovled with their own problems.  The prospect of oil being found on his land brings greed to the fore as his nephews played by Chris Cooper, lumbered with a totally disfunctional family and no great success himself, and Frederic Forrest,  with a remarkably chubby Shelly Duvall for a wife, hope for great riches.  So do his two married daughters.  No oil is found and all hopes are dashed. Even Cronyn admits disappointment but one know that he will soldier on.  The film also features a remarkably subdued turn from James Earl (I am your father) Jones.