

The Last Picture Show
Anarene, Texas, 1951. Nothing much has changed…
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.3M
- Box office
- $29.1M
- Language
- English
- small town
- new love
- based on novel or book
- texas
- graduation
- high school graduation
- billiard hall
- graduation present
- black and white
- elopement
- 1950s
- thoughtful
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereRNew York Film Festival2 Oct 1971
- Theatrical (limited)RNew York City, New York3 Oct 1971
- TheatricalR22 Oct 1971
- PhysicalR4K Blu-ray14 Nov 2023
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1 Mar 1972
- TheatricalRe-release15 Apr 2011
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM11 May 1972
CanadaCA
- PhysicalDVD30 Nov 1999
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical17 Feb 1972
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1824 May 1974
BrazilBR
- Theatrical25 Dec 1971
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical15 Sept 1972
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1614 Apr 1972
FranceFR
- TheatricalU13 Apr 1972
- TheatricalRe-release11 Dec 2013
- TheatricalRe-release, restored version5 Oct 2016
GermanyDE
- Theatrical12West Germany25 May 1973
- Theatrical12East Germany1 Oct 1976
GreeceGR
- Theatrical15 Jul 1974
- TheatricalRe-Release21 Aug 2025
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The Last Picture Show was released on 3 October 1971.
Audience reviews
3- W7/10
Wuchak
10/29/2018
***Bleak, trashy B&W drama of life in a fading Texas town in the early 50s with several strong points*** Released in 1971, “The Last Picture Show” is a B&W drama of several teens and adults in a dying Texas town on the windy plains in 1951. Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd play the main high shoolers while Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman and Ellen Burstyn appear as the adults. Randy Quaid and Clu Gu…
- P7/10
Peter McGinn
2/13/2021
I must have watched this movie a few years after it came out, but I had no specific memory of it, no feeling of deja vu of having seen a scene before. It is a good film in many ways, certainly achieving its apparent goal of portraying a bleak landscape of a dying town. The dialogue, which I notice since I write novels that feature a lot of dialogue, is excellent, just what you expect from Larry McMurtry. The actin…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
1/9/2025
"Sonny" (Timothy Bottoms) and "Duane" (Jeff Bridges) are best pals in a remote Texan town that offers them little by way of prospects. They both vie for the love interest of "Jacy" (Cybill Shepherd) although she is supposed to be dating "Duane". She comes from the family that passes for wealth in "Anarene" and her mother (Ellen Burstyn) has essentially told her to keep her options open and see which, from an extremel…
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