Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son four years before. As his me...( read more  read more... )mory returns, he makes contact with various people from his past.

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R, 2 hrs. 27 min.

Directed by: Wim Wenders

Release Date: November 1, 1984

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DVD Release Date: December 14, 2004

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  • October 1, 2009
    A beautiful film by Wim Wenders, Harry Dean Stanton is fantastic! This is great film making, a true classic!
  • February 6, 2008
    The film that made a name for Wim Wenders. top notch performances, namely the great Harry Dean Stanton. stunning cinematography and soundtrack. Emotional, sweet and moving.
  • January 5, 2008
    After two decades' work as a dependable character actor, Harry Dean Stanton was finally given a richly deserved leading role in this, one of the most iconic films of the 1980s and one of the most beautiful films of any decade. He plays Travis, a damaged refugee from an exploded r...( read more)elationship who pieces back together his life and his dignity after four years in the wilderness, gradually gaining the trust of the son he left behind and setting out to reunite the boy with his mother. I can't understand how anyone can call this a boring movie; even ignoring the great acting, the stunning visuals and the spectral majesty of Ry Cooder's soundtrack, the mystery at the core of the plot - the cataclysmic event which blew these three people apart - is as compelling as that of any detective story. The dramatic centrepiece is a hypnotic and deeply moving monologue, by Stanton, as the estranged lovers finally 'meet' again across the two-way mirror of a peep-show. Though the ending is bittersweet, the message I've always taken from "Paris, Texas" is inspirational: "Don't give up on life, even if your dreams are unattainable."
  • July 14, 2007
    One of those films that's impossible to adequately describe. Harry Dean Stanton is one of those faces that everyone knows without knowing they know; an understated and remarkable character actor who took very few lead roles. Add to his wonderful performance a captivating script o...( read more)f emotional resonance and some truly beautiful allegorical images and the result is a cinematic work of art.
  • May 28, 2007
    All I can say right now, its always been one of my favourites, but after watching it tonight I realized it really sits near the top of the list, and is a perfect film. Wenders' greatest triumph, Harry Dean Stanton's greatest role, an amazingly written and shot film, that is almos...( read more)t beyond words. It really has to be seen by everyone.
  • November 10, 2009
    Awesome, much better character piece than the rubbish we see nowadays.
  • October 28, 2009
    Win Wenders é um diretor muito sensível e acerta a mão neste filme, um dos meus favoritos. Harry Dean Stanton esta soberbo.
  • October 8, 2009
    "It is a story of the United States, a grim portrait of a land where people like Travis and Jane cannot put down roots, a story of a sprawling, powerful, richly endowed land where people can get desperately lost."

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    The last one by Wim Wenders, 1984.
  • September 6, 2009
    Excellent, both as a character study and as an criticism of the often vacuous nature of contemporary American life.
  • July 3, 2009
    Paris, Texas is about righting old wrongs, but Wenders lays nothing on the nose. Minimalist cinematography captures the rural landscape of the American southwest, while interlacing highways serve as a metaphor for life's never ending journeys and decisions. A road movie at its co...( read more)re, we're swept along with Travis as he delves into his troubled past, having lived in denial for many years. He realizes he must recognize the truth of his life if he is to move on and face up to his future, even if reality is the barren Paris, Texas rather than the alluring Paris, France.

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  • MorpheusOne
    September 29, 2007
    The quintessential character driven story! Amazing in it's performances and bold in it's storyline.
  • vitorius
    March 4, 2007
    i think you guys forgot to put Nastasjia Kinsky on the credits,she is the movie main issue here so...i loved this neurotic film.

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