Texasville (1990)

Directed by

Peter Bogdanovich

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 03m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 59 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Set 33 years after The Last Picture Show, this follows the same characters in a small Texas town as they face middle age and personal troubles. Duane Jackson is now a wealthy but overwhelmed oilman, while Jacy Farrow returns home as an aging beauty queen. The story shows their tangled relationships and the community's struggles with financial and emotional fallout.

melancholicreflectiveslow-burnbittersweetnostalgicunderstatedsmall-townensemble-driven

What happens

Texasville is a 1990 American drama film written and directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Based on the 1987 novel Texasville by Larry McMurtry, it is a sequel to The Last Picture Show (1971), and features Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, Timothy Bottoms, Randy Quaid, and Eileen Brennan reprising their roles from the original film. Texasville is in color, while The Last Picture Show was filmed in black and white. The film received mixed reviews from critics, holding a 59% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and was a box-office bomb, grossing just $2 million against its $18 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• The Outsiders (1990)
• The Best Times (1985)
• Firefly Lane (2021)
• Shaking the Tree (1990)
• The Age of Adaline (2015)
• Glory Days (1990)
• Significant Others (1998)
• The Last Best Year (1990)