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The Last Picture Show (1971)

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich

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Overview

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.

Rated R | Length 119 minutes

Actors

Timothy Bottoms | Cybill Shepherd | Jeff Bridges | Cloris Leachman | Ellen Burstyn | Ben Johnson | Randy Quaid | Clu Gulager | Eileen Brennan | Sam Bottoms | Sharon Ullrick | Bill Thurman | Jessie Lee Fulton | Helena Humann | Barc Doyle | Gary Brockette | John Hillerman | Joe Heathcock | Kimberly Hyde | Noble Willingham | Janice O'Malley | Grover Lewis | Peter Bogdanovich | Loyd Catlett | Robert Glenn | Floyd Mahaney | Joye Hash | Gordon Hurst | Charles Seybert | Frank Marshall | Tom Martin | Stuart Spates