The Last Picture Show

• 7.6 Drama
• 1971-10-03
• 119 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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) Randy Quaid (Lester Marlow) Clu Gulager (Abilene) Eileen Brennan (Genevieve) Sam Bottoms (Billy)

Director:

Peter Bogdanovich

Writer:

Larry McMurtry Peter Bogdanovich