Story Line
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.
“Anarene, Texas, 1951. Nothing much has changed…”
Top Cast
Timothy Bottoms
Sonny Crawford
Cybill Shepherd
Jacy Farrow
Jeff Bridges
Duane Jackson
Cloris Leachman
Ruth Popper
Ellen Burstyn
Lois Farrow
Ben Johnson
Sam the Lion
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Rating
7.6/ 10
Release Date
1971-10-03
Runtime
1h 59m
Genres
DramaRomance
Part of the Series
The Last Picture Show and Texasville
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User Reviews (3)
Wuchak
7/10
•10/29/2018***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. Timot...
Peter McGinn
7/10
•2/13/2021I 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 landsca...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•1/9/2025"Sonny" (Timothy Bottoms) and "Duane" (Jeff Bridges) are best pals in a remote Texan town that offers them little by way of prospects. They both vie for the love interest of "Jacy" (Cybill Shepherd) although she is supposed to be dating "Duane". She ...