The Last Picture Show

Oct, 1971

119 mins

7.6

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.

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Reviews

Wuchak

7.0

October 29, 2018

***Bleak, trashy B&W drama of life in a fading Texas town in the early 50s with several strong points*** 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...
Peter McGinn

7.0

February 12, 2021

I must have watched this movie a few years after it came out, but I had no specific memory of it, no feeling of deja vu of having seen a scene before. It is a good film in many ways, certainly achieving its apparent goal of portraying a bleak landscape of a dying town. The dialogue, which I notice since I write novels that feature a lo...

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Peter Bogdanovich on making THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
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Sofia Coppola announces the THE LAST PICTURE SHOW for AFI Movie Club
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AFS PRESENTS: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
May 11, 2017

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The Legacy of "The Last Picture Show"
Mar 21, 2014

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Making "The Last Picture Show"
Mar 21, 2014

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"The Last Picture Show" 40th Anniversary Panel
Mar 20, 2014

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An Illicit Kiss
Feb 26, 2013

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