The Last Picture Show (1971) [R]
Featuring:
Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd
Written by:
Larry McMurtry
Peter Bogdanovich
Directed by:
Peter Bogdanovich
Release Date:
October 3, 1971
Original Title:
The Last Picture Show
Alternate Titles:
Den sista föreställningen
Die letzte Vorstellung
La Dernière Séance
La última película
Ostatni seans filmowy
Ultimul spectacol cinematografic
Viimeinen elokuva
Последний киносеанс
마지막 영화관
Genres:
Drama | Romance
Production Companies:
BBS Productions
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M BE: 18 DE: 12 FI: K-16 FR: U IE: 18 NL: 18|6 PL: 16 RU: 16+ SE: 11 US: R
Runtime: 119
Anarene, Texas, 1951. Nothing much has changed…
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.
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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