The Last Picture Show
Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd
In a bleak and sleepy 50s Texas town, two high-school seniors, stars on a losing football team, ponder their futures, carry on love affairs with the town sweetheart and and an older, married woman res...( read more
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DVD Released: November 30, 1999
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April 8, 2009My father encouraged me to watch this the last time he, himself, picked it up, but I inherited a distaste for starting in the middle from him and, though I'd only missed five minutes, I skipped on it. I vaguely recall some girl may have been involved in distracting me as well, at... ...( read more )
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December 13, 2008The Last Picture Show is Peter Bogdonavich's adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel about life in a small, dried up Texas town in the 1950's. Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson) is the pulse of the town of Anarene, owning the pool hall, the diner, and the picture show as he bestows fatherl... ...( read more )
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October 18, 2008Interesting break out pic for Bogdanovich. More nudity than expected.
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June 8, 2008er... think i'll steal a johnny rotten line here and say nevermind the bollocks!! nevermind the film critics too! they're usually wrong about what's entertaining. silly cunts!
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January 8, 2008There have been other teenage/high school/college drama films in the past. This movie was the cross-over and combination of those angst filled dramas to the raunchy teen comedies to come.
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April 19, 2009A great story from Larry McMurtry about his hometown and growing up there, add an unknown Peter Bogdanovich, and mostly unknown cast, sans Ben Johnson (thanks Ben), and out comes a super character study of a small and dusty Texas town and what life was like in the early 1950s. My... ...( read more )
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October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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