Additional information for The Last Picture Show, which has a domestic theatrical release set for October 22, 1971. The film is being distributed by Columbia Pictures and has not yet been rated. The Last Picture Show has a total running time of 118 minutes.
M
Australia
K-16
Finland
T
Italy
11
Sweden
R
USA
Atp
Argentina
M/12
Portugal
18
Spain
X
UK
L
Iceland
M18
Singapore
R
Canada
16
West Germany
14
Brazil
M
New Zealand
14
Peru
18
Netherlands
118min
127min
Die letzte Vorstellung
Austria
Die letzte Vorstellung
West Germany
La última película
Argentina
La última película
Spain
Последний киносеанс
Russia
A Última Sessão
Portugal
A Última Sessão de Cinema
Brazil
Az utolsó mozielőadás
Hungary
Den sista föreställningen
Sweden
I teleftaia parastasi
Greece
L'ultimo spettacolo
Italy
La dernière séance
France
Ostatni seans filmowy
Poland
Poslednja bioskopska predstava
Serbia
Siste forestilling
Norway
Son gösteri
Turkey
Viimeinen elokuva
Finland
October 03, 1971
USA
October 22, 1971
USA
November 04, 1971
USA
February 17, 1972
Argentina
April 10, 1972
Sweden
April 14, 1972
Finland
May 04, 1972
Netherlands
May 25, 1973
West Germany
May 24, 1974
Belgium
October 01, 1976
East Germany
February 14, 2010
USA
September 16, 2010
Germany
April 15, 2011
UK
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A group of 50's high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both economically and culturally.
Spanning one year from 1951 to 1952 in the small town of Anarene, Texas, Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane (Jeff Bridges) are high-school seniors, co-captains of Anarene High's football team and share a rooming house home and a battered old pickup truck which they take to and from school. Duane is good looking, amusing and popular, and is dating Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd), the prettiest (and wealthiest) girl in town. Sonny is sensitive and caring, with a dumpy, unpleasant girlfriend (Sharon Taggart) he does not love. She shares his indifference, and they decide to call it quits.At Christmas, Sonny stumbles into an affair with Ruth Popper (Cloris Leachman), the depressed middle-aged wife of his high school basketball coach. At the sad little town's Christmas dance, Jacy is invited by unsavory Lester Marlow (Randy Quaid) to a naked indoor pool party at the home of Bobby Sheen (Gary Brockette), a boy with rich parents, who seems to offer better prospects than Duane. The trouble is that Bobby isn't interested in her as long as she is a virgin, so she has to get someone to deflower her first.Duane and Sonny go on a road trip to Mexico (which happens entirely off-screen) and return the day after New Years Day in 1952, to discover that Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson), their mentor and a wealthy father-figure in town, has died, leaving a will that bequeaths his property which includes the town's movie theater to the woman who ran the concession stand, the cafe to its waitress Genevieve (Eileen Brennan) and the pool hall to Sonny.Jacy invites Duane to a motel for what he imagines is some lovemaking, but he is unable to perform. It takes a second attempt to alter her virginity status. Having got what she wanted from Duane, she breaks up with him by phone, and he eventually joins the Army. When Bobby elopes with another girl, Jacy is alone again, and out of boredom has sex with Abilene (Clu Gulager), her mother's lover. When Jacy hears of Sonny's affair with Ruth, she sets her sights on him and Ruth gets cut out right quick.A few days later, Sonny gets the bad end of a broken bottle from Duane, who still considers Jacy "his" girl when he learns of their affair. Jacy pretends to be impressed that Sonny would fight over her and suggests they elope.On their way to their honeymoon, they're stopped by Oklahoma state troopers. It turns out that Jacy left a note telling her parents all about their plan. The couple are forcibly taken back to Anarene by Jacy's father and mother Lois (Ellen Burstyn) in separate automobiles. On the trip back, Lois Farrow admits to Sonny she was Sam the Lion's erstwhile paramour and tells him he was much better off with Ruth Popper than with Jacy.A few months later, Duane returns to town for a visit before shipping out for Korea. He and Sonny are among the meager group attending the final screening at Sam's old moviehouse, which can no longer make a go of it. The next morning, after Sonny sees Duane off on the Trailways bus, young Billy (Sam Bottoms), another of the town's innocents and local simpleton whom was protected over the years by Sam the Lion, is run over and killed in a hit-and-run as he sweeps the deserted street.Distraught over the loss of his friends, Sonny flees back to Ruth, whom he ignored since Jacy stole him away months before. Her first reaction is to show her hurt and anger, then the two slip into a haunting, beatific calm in her familiar kitchen. She tells him, "Never you mind, honey, never you mind."
Peter Bogdanovich
Director(s)
Larry McMurtry
Peter Bogdanovich
Larry McMurtry
Writer(s)
Stephen J. Friedman
producer
Bert Schneider
executive producer
Harold Schneider
associate producer
Bob Rafelson
producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Phil Harris
Johnny Standley
Hank Thompson
Composer(s)
Sonny Crawford
Timothy Bottoms
Duane Jackson
Jeff Bridges
Jacy Farrow
Cybill Shepherd
Sam the Lion
Ben Johnson
Ruth Popper
Cloris Leachman
Lois Farrow
Ellen Burstyn
Genevieve
Eileen Brennan
Abilene
Clu Gulager
Billy
Sam Bottoms
Charlene Duggs (as Sharon Taggart)
Sharon Ullrick
Lester Marlow
Randy Quaid
The Sheriff
Joe Heathcock
Coach Popper
Bill Thurman
Joe Bob Blanton
Barc Doyle
Miss Mosey
Jessie Lee Fulton
Bobby Sheen
Gary Brockette
Jimmie Sue
Helena Humann
Leroy
Loyd Catlett
Gene Farrow
Robert Glenn
Teacher
John Hillerman
Mrs. Clarg (as Janice O'Malley)
Janice E. O'Malley
Oklahoma Patrolman
Floyd Mahaney
Annie-Annie Martin
Kimberly Hyde
Chester
Noble Willingham
Winnie Snips
Marjorie Jay
Mrs. Jackson
Joye Hash
Jackie Lee French
Pamela Keller
Monroe
Gordon Hurst
Johnny
Mike Hosford
Nurse
Faye Jordan
Andy Fanner
Charles Seybert
Mr. Crawford
Grover Lewis
Marlene
Rebecca Ulrick
Agnes
Merrill Shepherd
Bud
Buddy Wood
Ken
Kenny Wood
Cowboy in Cafe
Leon Brown
Truck Driver
Bobby McGriff
Oil Pumper
Jack Mueller
Brother Blanton
Robert Arnold
Director(s)
Peter Bogdanovich
Larry McMurtry
Writer(s)
producer
Bert Schneider
executive producer
Harold Schneider
associate producer
Bob Rafelson
producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Phil Harris
Johnny Standley
Hank Thompson
Composer(s)
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