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Academy Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay
Academy Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Cinematography
Academy Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Director
Academy Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Picture
Academy Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay
Academy Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Cinematography
Academy Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Director
Academy Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Picture
Academy Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Supporting Actor
Academy Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Supporting Actress
Academy Awards 1972 - Won - Best Supporting Actor
Academy Awards 1972 - Won - Best Supporting Actress
BAFTA Awards 1973 - Nominated - Best Director
BAFTA Awards 1973 - Nominated - Best Film
BAFTA Awards 1973 - Nominated - Best Supporting Actress
BAFTA Awards 1973 - Won - Best Screenplay
BAFTA Awards 1973 - Won - Best Supporting Actor
BAFTA Awards 1973 - Won - Best Supporting Actress
DGA Awards 1972 - Nominated - Outstanding Direction of a Motion Picture
Golden Globe Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Director
Golden Globe Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Picture
Golden Globe Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Supporting Actress
Golden Globe Awards 1972 - Nominated - Most Promising Female Newcomer
Golden Globe Awards 1972 - Won - Best Supporting Actor
National Board of Review Awards 1972 - Won - Best Supporting Actor
National Board of Review Awards 1972 - Won - Best Supporting Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1971 - Won - Best Screenplay
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1971 - Won - Best Supporting Actor
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1971 - Won - Best Supporting Actress
NSFC Awards 1972 - Won - Best Supporting Actress
WGA Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Adapted Drama
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Film SynopsisProduced by Hollywood iconoclast BBS Productions, film critic-turned-director Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film pays homage to Hollywood's classical age as it chronicles generational rites of passage in Anarene, a fictional one-horse Texas town. In 1951, high school seniors Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane (Jeff Bridges) play football, go to the movies at the Royal Theater, hang out at the pool hall owned by local elder statesman Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson), and lust after rich tease Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd in her film debut). Get Involved |
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Bruce Dern
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Rated R for sexuality, nudity and language.
Runtime:
118 min.
Genre:
Drama
Country:
UNITED STATES
Language:
English/American
Color:
Black & White
Certification:
R
Tagline
THE PICTURE SHOW THAT INTRODUCED AMERICA TO THE FORGOTTEN 1950S. It launched the meteoric career of its brilliant new director and its talented cast. It won 2 Academy Awards, and nominations for 8. If you missed it the first time, you owe it to yourself now. If you saw it once, remember it again.
Anarene, Texas, 1951. Nothing much has changed...t
Plot Summary
As the year passes, Sonny learns about the pitfalls and compromises of adulthood through an affair with his coach's wife Ruth (Cloris Leachman) and a thwarted elopement with Jacy after she dumps Duane. Following two tragic deaths, and with Duane gone to Korea and Jacy packed off to college in Dallas, Sonny is left behind in Anarene, wise enough to absorb the life lessons of Sam the Lion and Jacy's mother Lois (Ellen Burstyn). He is determined to honor Sam's legacy as the town's conscience, despite a telling sign of incipient communal disintegration: the closing of the Royal Theater after a final showing of Howard Hawks's Red River.
Memorable Quotes
Jacy Farrow: [to Lester Marlow] Thank God, I'm glad I weren't on fire - I would've burned to death. All you've got is one button undone.
[Telephone Conversation] Duane Jackson: Hi Jacy, it's Duane. Jacy Farrow: What's on your feeble mind Duane?
Lois Farrow: I guess if it wasn't for Sam, I'd have missed it, whatever it is. I'd have been one of them amity types that thinks that playin' bridge is about the best thing that life has to offer.
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Directed by
Peter Bogdanovich
Produced by
Stephen J. Friedman
Writing credits
Larry McMurtry
Cast
| Cybill Shepherd | ||
| Ben Johnson | ||
| Cloris Leachman | ||
| Ellen Burstyn | ||
| Eileen Brennan | ||
| Clu Gulager | ||
| Sam Bottoms | ||
| Sharon Ullrick | ||
| Randy Quaid | ||
| Barc Doyle | ||
| Bill Thurman | ||
| Joe Heathcock | ||
| Jeff Bridges | ||
| Timothy Bottoms |
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