The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show

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In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, football, and girls. Jacy is Duane's steady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacy's heart will be set ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Last Picture Show:

Timothy Bottoms
Cybill Shepherd
Jeff Bridges
Cloris Leachman
Ellen Burstyn
Ben Johnson

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In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, football, and girls. Jacy is Duane's steady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacy's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie house and the time comes for the last picture show. With the closure of the movie house, the boys feel that a stage of their lives is closing. They stand uneasily on the threshold of the rest of their lives. (The movie was adapted from the novel by Larry McMurtry).

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Q Network Film Desk - 10/10 by James Kendrickdoesn't shy away from the inherent awkwardness of life, but instead embraces it with an elegiac sensitivity that sidesteps Peyton Place-style melodrama and turns small-town anomie and the dead ends of life into stark cinematic poetry
Common Sense Media - 10/10 by Brian CostelloClassic American film has heavy themes and sex.
Slant Magazine - 10/10 by Budd WilkinsDelineates the quiet, desperate lives of the citizens of Anarene, Texas over the course of one year in the early 1950s.
Daily Telegraph (UK) - 10/10 by Tim RobeyBen Johnson and Cloris Leachman won Oscars, but the work of Eileen Brennan and Timothy Bottoms is even more cherishable.
Time Out - 10/10 by Joshua RothkopfIt's meant to make you feel sad for what's lost, but a vitality throbs through it.
Observer (UK) - 10/10 by Philip FrenchBogdanovich's masterpiece, it's an elegy for a vanishing America...
Time Out - 10/10 by Tom HuddlestonThe scene where Sam imparts his wisdom to young buck Bottoms may be the saddest, loveliest moment in 1970s American cinema. And that’s saying something.
New York Times - 10/10 by Vincent CanbyPeter Bogdanovich's fine second film, The Last Picture Show, adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel by McMurtry and Bogdanovich, has the effect of a lovely, leisurely, horizontal pan-shot across the life of Anarene, Tex., a small, shabby town on a plain so flat that to raise the eye even 10 degrees would be to see only an endless sky.
Video-Reviewmaster.com - 10/10 by Steve CrumMoving, understated, beautifully filmed story with memorable acting by all.
Total Film - 10/10 by Philip KempA worthy tribute to Bogdanovich's idols, Orson Welles and John Ford.

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