The Last Picture Show

Movie

1971

1h 59m

English

Drama

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The Last Picture Show

Movie

1971

1h 59m

English

Drama

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Watch on The Criterion Channel

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.

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Cast

Sonny Crawford

Jacy Farrow

Duane Jackson

Ruth Popper

Lois Farrow

Sam the Lion

Lester Marlow

Abilene

Genevieve

Billy

Charlene Duggs

Coach Popper

Miss Mosey

Jimmie Sue

Joe Bob Blanton

Bobby Sheen

English teacher

Sheriff

Annie-Annie Martin

Chester

Mrs. Clarg

Sonny's father

DJ (voice) (uncredited)

Loyd Catlett

Leroy

Robert Glenn

Gene Farrow

Directed By: Peter Bogdanovich

Written By: Peter Bogdanovich (Screenplay), Larry McMurtry (Screenplay), + 1 more

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rickay says...

3 years ago

After watching it I understand why Ben Johnson initially turned the role down. He said it was dirty and full of cuss words. Peter Bogdanovich made the first 3/4 of the movie feel creepy with horrible up close shots and awkward sexual moments with young people. His inner pervert distracts and almost ruins the movie. Like with the abduction scene we didn’t need that. I only watched it to see Ben Johnson’s performance and was amazed how many of the actors I knew and I really did like the the last 20 minutes or so. Not a great movie just something that you watch to see the people you grew up watching get their start.

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Spiritualized Kaos says...

8 months ago

Bitter insight into the youth of a Texas town.

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nmahoney416 says...

5 years ago

Jeff Bridges is great but I didn't really care for this. It's fine but I feel like it has been done better.

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bizzort

9/10 2 years ago

i watched this in my 20s and didn't get it. i found it boring, dozing off in spurts. i liked some scenes but it just didn't do anything for me.

watched it again in my late 30s and it hit me right in the face. the setting, atmosphere, just perfect. you're dropped in this dusty town that offers no More

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Wuchak

6 years ago

***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 Cybill Shepherd p More

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Peter M

4 years ago

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 dialogue, which I notic More

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