The Last Picture Show

Name: The Last Picture Show
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1971-10-03
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 7.606

★ 7,6 /10 (785 Votes)

1971 EN 119 min

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.

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Rent

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Release date

03/10/1971

Votes

785

Popularity

4.5

Anarene, Texas, 1951. Nothing much has changed…

Genres

Drama Romance

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

119 min

Budget

$1,300,000

Revenue

$29,133,000

Timothy Bottoms

Sonny Crawford

Cybill Shepherd

Jacy Farrow

Jeff Bridges

Duane Jackson

Cloris Leachman

Ruth Popper

Ellen Burstyn

Lois Farrow

Ben Johnson

Sam the Lion

Randy Quaid

Lester Marlow

Clu Gulager

Abilene

Eileen Brennan

Genevieve

Sam Bottoms

Billy

Sharon Ullrick

Charlene Duggs

Bill Thurman

Coach Popper

Jessie Lee Fulton

Miss Mosey

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Helena Humann

Jimmie Sue

Barc Doyle

Joe Bob Blanton

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Gary Brockette

Bobby Sheen

John Hillerman

English teacher

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Joe Heathcock

Sheriff

Kimberly Hyde

Annie-Annie Martin

Noble Willingham

Chester

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Janice O'Malley

Mrs. Clarg

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Grover Lewis

Sonny's father

Peter Bogdanovich

DJ (voice) (uncredited)

Loyd Catlett

Leroy

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Robert Glenn

Gene Farrow

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Floyd Mahaney

Oklahoma Patrolman

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Joye Hash

Mrs. Jackson

Gordon Hurst

Monroe

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Charles Seybert

Andy Fanner

Frank Marshall

Tommy Logan

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Tom Martin

Larry

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Stuart Spates

Roughneck in Truck (uncredited)

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Marjorie Jay

Winnie Snips

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Pamela Keller

Jackie Lee French

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Mike Hosford

Johnny

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Faye Jordan

Nurse

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Rebecca Ulrick

Marlene

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Merrill Shepherd

Agnes

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Buddy Wood

Bud

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Kenny Wood

Ken

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Leon Brown

Cowboy in Cafe

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Bobby McGriff

Truck Driver

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Jack Mueller

Oil Pumper

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Robert Arnold

Brother Blanton

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Otis Elmore

1st Mechanic

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Charles Salmon

Roughneck Driver

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George Gaulden

Cowboy

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Will Morris Hannis

Gas Station Man

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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 Cybill Shepherd play the main high shoolers while Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman and Ellen Burstyn appear as the adults. Randy Quaid and Clu Gulager have peripheral roles. Sam the Lion (Johnson) is the minor mogul of the town, the father figure of several of the boys, who are fatherless in practice, if not reality. Des…

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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 dialogue, which I notice since I write novels that feature a lot of dialogue, is excellent, just what you expect from Larry McMurtry. The acting is solid, though a little dreamy and perhaps overdone in places. I like how the camera focuses on faces at times even when nothing is being said. Because there are so many you…

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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 for wealth in "Anarene" and her mother (Ellen Burstyn) has essentially told her to keep her options open and see which, from an extremely limited gene pool, might offer her the best prospects. For most of their lives, "Sam" (Ben Johnson), himself a symbol of a bygone era, was a sort of father figure and his death l…

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