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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 30, 1999
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cybill Shepherd & Jeff Bridges | |
Performer: | Cloris Leachman, Ben Johnson, Timothy Bottoms, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan & Randy Quaid | |
Directed by | Peter Bogdanovich | |
Edited by | Donn Cambern | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Bogdanovich | |
Story by | Larry McMurtry | |
Produced by | Stephen Friedman | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Surtees |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1971 -
Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson
Academy Awards 1971 -
Best Supporting Actress: Cloris Leachman
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
The Last Picture Show is indeed one of the greatest movies ever made (although I hardly think the scorekeepers were waiting for my vote to come in before they declared it such).
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Quickflix
Rating: 5/5 --
A sublime study of sexually charged ennui in a dying town in 1950s Texas.
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Times (UK)
...The most mournful of all American youth pictures....It offers a peculiar pocket of time...
Total Film
[A] stark black-and-white drama about a fading small town in the 1950s....Perhaps director Peter Bogdanovich's finest hour.
Premiere
It's plain and uncondescending in its re-creation of what it means to be a high-school athlete, of what a country dance hall is like, of the necking in cars and movie houses, and of the desolation that follows high-school graduation.
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New Yorker
At first glance, the movie is a faithful and skillful adaptation of the source, but a second look at both the film and the book reveals some interesting divergences.
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Village Voice
Peter Bogdanovich has made one of his most honest as well as mature films. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Product Description:
Director Peter Bogdanovich (MASK, PAPER MOON) brings Larry McMurtry's bittersweet novel of life in a small, sleepy Texas town in the early 1950s to the big screen. This coming-of-age tale, shot in haunting black-and-white by cinematographer Robert Surtees (THE GRADUATE, OKLAHOMA!), focuses on best friends Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) and their relationships. Duane is dating the beautiful but fickle Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd), a good girl who is looking for a little excitement. Shy Sonny, meanwhile, is carrying on an illicit affair with a coach's wife, Ruth Popper (Cloris Leachman), a sad, plain woman whose only joy appears to be the stolen moments they share. By delving into the intertwining lives of the town's diverse residents, the film masterfully explores issues of love, loneliness, innocence lost, and disillusionment. The closing of the town's only cinema serves as both a physical and metaphoric backdrop to the characters' lives. A favorite of critics, the film was nominated for eight Oscars, earning one for both Leachman and Ben Johnson, whose portrayal of the town's father figure, Sam the Lion, is utterly masterful. Model-turned-actress Cybill Shepherd shines as Jacy in her film debut, which also features Ellen Burstyn as Jacy's mother, Lois. Bogdanovich also directed the sequel, TEXASVILLE (1990), which featured most of the original film's cast.
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- Sales Rank: 29,166
- UPC: 043396504295
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