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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.
1971 · Directed by Peter Bogdanovich · 119 min · Drama · Romance · 19 frames
Tagline
Anarene, Texas, 1951. Nothing much has changed…
Crew
- Screenplay: Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich
- Cinematography: Robert Surtees
- Edited by: Peter Bogdanovich, Donn Cambern
- Production design: Polly Platt
- Produced by: Stephen J. Friedman, Bob Rafelson
Cast
- Timothy Bottoms as Sonny Crawford
- Cybill Shepherd as Jacy Farrow
- Jeff Bridges as Duane Jackson
- Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper
- Ellen Burstyn as Lois Farrow
- Ben Johnson as Sam the Lion
- Randy Quaid as Lester Marlow
- Clu Gulager as Abilene
- Eileen Brennan as Genevieve
- Sam Bottoms as Billy
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: BBS Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Budget: $1,300,000
- Box office: $29,133,000
- Themes: small town, new love, based on novel or book, texas, graduation, high school graduation, billiard hall, graduation present, black and white, elopement
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