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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 film's ensemble cast includes Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, and Cybill Shepherd.
- $29.1 million
- October 22, 1971
- $1.3 million
- Stephen J. Friedman
Oct 22, 1971 · The Last Picture Show: Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. With Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson. In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
- (51K)
- Drama, Romance
- Peter Bogdanovich
- 1971-10-22
Jul 4, 2004 · In high school., a valiant English teacher ( John Hillerman) reads from Keats that truth is beauty and beauty is truth, but truth and beauty seem remote from their lives, and the most wonderful thing that happens to Sonny is that Ruth ( Cloris Leachman ), the 40-ish wife of the football coach, takes him to her bed and treats him fondly.
Rated: 4/4 • Nov 19, 2023. 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 ...
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- Peter Bogdanovich
- R
- Timothy Bottoms
Summaries. In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically. In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends.
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Oct 22, 2021 · The Last Picture Show at 50: a melancholic ode to the ghost town. The bleak 1971 drama is an enduring look at a dying small town that finds moments of humanity in among the sadness. Scott...
One of the key films of the American seventies cinema renaissance, The Last Picture Show is set in the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen. This aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens—enigmatic Sonny (Timothy ...
