Tomorrow is a 1972 American drama film directed by Joseph Anthony and starring Robert Duvall. The screenplay was written by Horton Foote, adapted from a play he wrote for Playhouse 90 that was based on a 1940 short story by William Faulkner in the short story collection Knight's Gambit. The PG-rated film was filmed in the Mississippi counties of Alcorn and Itawamba. Although released in 1972, it saw limited runs in the U.S. until re-released about ten years later. Duvall has called the film one of his personal favorites.

Plot

An isolated and lonely farmer named Fentry, in rural Mississippi takes in a pregnant drifter who has been abandoned by the father of her child. Told in flashback, twenty years later, the farmer is on a jury and the film, narrated by the defense attorney in the case, explores why he is the lone guilty vote in the trial of a man who killed a man most people considered worthless and no account. In a steady and methodic fashion, it is revealed the victim was the son of Sarah Eubanks, the pregnant drifter, with whom Fentry had had an intense personal involvement after he found her in a destitute state and nursed her back to health. She later died, after he had promised he'd take care of her son. He raised the boy for a time, but the boy was taken from him by force by the brothers of the boy's mother. Their poor upbringing led to the boy becoming a man who people held in such low regard that his murder was regarded as a public service. Fentry remembers only the child he'd cherished and nurtured, and can't accept his death being treated as an event of no significance. The attorney looks at Fentry, and realizes this is someone society treats as insignificant, but who is actually a person of tremendous character and determination, like so many others who die unnoticed: “The lowly and invincible of the earth—to endure and endure and then endure, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.”