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About
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.
Theatrical
Oct 22, 1971
Box Office
$29.1M
Budget
$1.3M
Return
22.4x
DVD / Blu-ray
Nov 14, 2023
Theaters
9
Director
Writers
Producers
Studio
BBS Productions, Columbia Pictures
Quotes
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Miss Mosey
Nobody wants to come to shows no more. Kids got baseball in the summer, television all the time. If Sam had lived, I believe we could've kept it goin'. But I just didn't have the know-how.
Duane
Won't be much to do in town with the picture show closed.
Sonny
Yeah.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Reflections on Love and Loss
Sonny
Nothin's really been right since Sam the Lion died.
Lois
No, no it hasn't. Oh God, I get sad if I think of Sam for long. Did you know he had beautiful hands?
Sonny
I guess you liked him, didn't you? Aw, I guess everybody did.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
The Last Picture Show and Texasville
Stories, loves and regrets in Anarene, a small town in Texas.
Cast
Full credits →T
Timothy Bottoms
Sonny Crawford
C
Cybill Shepherd
Jacy Farrow
J
Jeff Bridges
Duane Jackson
C
Cloris Leachman
Ruth Popper
E
Ellen Burstyn
Lois Farrow
B
Ben Johnson
Sam the Lion
R
Randy Quaid
Lester Marlow
C
Clu Gulager
Abilene
E
Eileen Brennan
Genevieve
S
Sam Bottoms
Billy
S
Sharon Ullrick
Charlene Duggs
B
Bill Thurman
Coach Popper
J
Jessie Lee Fulton
Miss Mosey
H
Helena Humann
Jimmie Sue
G
Gary Brockette
Bobby Sheen
J
John Hillerman
English teacher
K
Kimberly Hyde
Annie-Annie Martin
N
Noble Willingham
Chester
P
Peter Bogdanovich
DJ (voice) (uncredited)
L
Loyd Catlett
Leroy
