The Last Picture Show

About The Last Picture Show

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.

The Last Picture Show is a 1971 romance film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The film is filed under texas, thoughtful, new love, and graduation.

Timothy Bottoms stars as Sonny Crawford, Cybill Shepherd as Jacy Farrow, Jeff Bridges as Duane Jackson, and Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper. Released in October 1971, it runs 119 minutes.

The screenplay is by Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich. It was produced by BBS Productions and Columbia Pictures. It is part of The Last Picture Show and Texasville. It is adapted from a novel.

The Killer Inside Me, The Iron Giant, and Chocolat make useful companions to The Last Picture Show, all filed under 1950s and small town. TMDB voters put it at 7.6 out of 10 across 809 votes and it carries a R rating.