Paper Moon (film)
1973
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Jul 4, 2004 · The last ones who knew the secret were Sam the Lion and maybe Genevieve (Eileen Brennan), the waitress at Sam's diner. Sonny and Duane, we suspect, will grow up to drink too much, work too hard and marry desperate women -- unless Duane is killed first in Korea.
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...
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Roger Ebert praises Peter Bogdanovich's film as a belated entry in the classic Hollywood narrative style, capturing the nostalgia and malaise of 1950s America. He compares the film's visual style and period details to the movies of that era, and wonders what they meant for the audience.
The Last Picture Show Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Kathy Fennessy Video Librarian Magazine. If the sequel is a mixed success,...
The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American coming-of-age drama film directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from the semi-autobiographical 1966 novel The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry.
The Last Picture Show - Metacritic. 1971. R. Columbia Pictures. 1 h 58 m. Summary In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically. Drama. Romance.
The Last Picture Show is a truly rare work of surprising depth and emotional resonance; and the heartache for a time and place forever gone and the desperate and quiet struggles of its very real, very human denizens is matched only by the sorrow found in contemplation of Bogdanovich's Icarus-like fall from such exalted heights.
