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  • 1982
  • PG
  • Warner Bros.
  • 2 h 2 m
  • 1982
  • PG
  • Warner Bros.
  • 2 h 2 m

Summary As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a su...

Written By: Clancy Carlile

  • 1982
  • PG
  • Warner Bros.
  • 2 h 2 m
  • 1982
  • PG
  • Warner Bros.
  • 2 h 2 m

Honkytonk Man

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
50
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a su...

Written By: Clancy Carlile

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
50
33% Positive
4 Reviews
42% Mixed
5 Reviews
25% Negative
3 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
50
33% Positive
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42% Mixed
5 Reviews
25% Negative
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88
It's a pleasant, unprepossessing picture of gliding charm and buoyant silliness, a fragile craft unencumbered by the weighty sophistication of camp, and it's one of the nicest surprises of the season. [17 Dec 1982]
By Jay Scott FULL REVIEW
75
This is a sweet, whimsical, low-key movie, a movie that makes you feel good without pressing you too hard.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
50
A more modest, down-to-earth disappointment than Firefox, it benefits from a fair amount of incidental entertainment value, much of it supplied by a distinctive and often humorous supporting cast. [18 Dec 1982, p.C4]
By Gary Arnold FULL REVIEW
50
Only charm and sentimentality could have brought the requisite magic to Clint Eastwood's Honkytonk Man; unfortunately, this well-intentioned but weak film hasn't nearly enough of either.
By Janet Maslin FULL REVIEW
50
Unfortunately, the film suffers from the weak script's predictable situations and underdeveloped characters, and the pathos and cliches become hard to take, making Honkytonk Man more of a curiosity piece for followers of Eastwood than a truly compelling story.
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30
Eastwood has no more singing talent than Citizen Kane's mistress, and this oh-so-well-intentioned movie takes more than two tepid hours to show us the boy becoming a man, the man achieving his dream and somebody singing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot over his grave. They'll have to come for to carry you home after this one. [27 Dec 1982, p.62]
By David Ansen FULL REVIEW
25
A soppy songfest about a tubercular pea picker who drives to Nashville, where he hemorrhages and dies. It's unfit for human consumption. [17 Dec 1982, p.20]
By Rita Kempley FULL REVIEW

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6.8
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5 Ratings
38% Mixed
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Production Company The Malpaso Company
Release Date Dec 15, 1982
Duration 2 h 2 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline The boy is on his way to becoming a man. The man is on his way to becoming a legend.
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