Overview:
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.| Status: | Released (1971-10-03) |
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| Awards: | Won 2 Oscars. 19 wins & 22 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $29,133,000 |
| Screen: | Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich |
| Productions: | BBS Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 19207: Timothy Bottoms - Sonny Crawford
- 1036: Cybill Shepherd - Jacy Farrow
- 1229: Jeff Bridges - Duane Jackson
- 9599: Cloris Leachman - Ruth Popper
- 9560: Ellen Burstyn - Lois Farrow
- 8258: Ben Johnson - Sam the Lion
- 1811: Randy Quaid - Lester Marlow
Crews
- 39012: Peter Bogdanovich - Director - Directing
- 1807: Larry McMurtry - Screenplay - Writing
- 1043424: Robert Rubin - Assistant Director - Directing
- 41138: Ross Brown - Casting - Production
- 39012: Peter Bogdanovich - Screenplay - Writing
- 8847: Donn Cambern - Editor - Editing
- 10005: Robert Surtees - Director of Photography - Camera
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Reviews
Wuchak
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***Bleak, trashy B&W drama of life in a fading Texas town in the early 50s with several strong points*** Released in 1971, “The Last Picture Show” is a B&W drama of several teens and adults in a dying Texas town on the windy plains in 1951. Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges and Cybil ....
Continue reading ->Peter McGinn
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I must have watched this movie a few years after it came out, but I had no specific memory of it, no feeling of deja vu of having seen a scene before. It is a good film in many ways, certainly achieving its apparent goal of portraying a bleak landscape of a dying town. The dialogu ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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"Sonny" (Timothy Bottoms) and "Duane" (Jeff Bridges) are best pals in a remote Texan town that offers them little by way of prospects. They both vie for the love interest of "Jacy" (Cybill Shepherd) although she is supposed to be dating "Duane". She comes from the family that passes ....
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