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High school seniors and best friends Sonny and Duane live in a dying 1950s Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating local beauty Jacy, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach’s wife, Ruth. As graduation nears, both boys contemplate escaping the dead-end town to build a better life elsewhere.
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.
The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American drama film directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry. Set in a small town in north Texas from November 1951 to October 1952, it is about the coming of age of Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and his friend Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges).
The Last Picture Show is a film directed by Peter Bogdanovich with Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson .... Year: 1971. Original title: The Last Picture Show. Synopsis: This coming-of-age tale set in the 50s focuses on best friends Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) and their relationships.
Released in 1971 to critical acclaim and public controversy, The Last Picture Show garnered eight Academy Award nominations and was hailed as the most important work by a young American director since Citizen Kane. A surprisingly frank, bittersweet drama of social and sexual mores in small-town Texas, the film features a talent-laden cast led by Jeff Bridges (The Mirror Has Two Faces), Cybill ...
The Last Picture Show Drama 1971 1 hr 58 min High school seniors and best friends, Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane (Jeff Bridges), live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating local beauty, Jacy (Cybill Shepherd), while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's ...
Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) That's A Roughneck For You Outside what amounts to a whole-town Christmas party (in novelist and co-screenwriter Larry McMurtry’s fictional 1951 Anarene, Texas) Jacy (Cybill Shepherd) frustrates jock boyfriend Duane (Jeff Bridges), contriving an excuse allowing her to slip away with Lester (Randy Quaid) to a promising country-club party in a ...
