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Apr 2, 2021 · The Last Picture Show. Publication date. 1971. Topics. Trailer, Movie, Drama. 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.
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The Last Picture Show is a ground-breaking coming-of-age drama released in 1971. The movie was directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich. The story takes place in a small Texas town in the ...
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- Timothy Bottoms
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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
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.
- Peter Bogdanovich
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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 ...
Drama. Released in 1971 to critical acclaim and public controversy, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW garnered eight Academy Award (r) nominations (including Best Picture) 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 ...