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  • 1990
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 6 m
  • 1990
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 6 m

Summary The summer of 1984: 32 years after Duane Jackson captained the high school football team and Jacy Farrow was homecoming queen, the small town of Anarene, Texas prepares for its centennial celebration. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. His wife Karla drinks too much, his children are always in troubl...

Directed By: Peter Bogdanovich

Written By: Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich

  • 1990
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 6 m
  • 1990
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 6 m

Texasville

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Summary The summer of 1984: 32 years after Duane Jackson captained the high school football team and Jacy Farrow was homecoming queen, the small town of Anarene, Texas prepares for its centennial celebration. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. His wife Karla drinks too much, his children are always in troubl...

Directed By: Peter Bogdanovich

Written By: Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 26 Critic Reviews
49
31% Positive
8 Reviews
42% Mixed
11 Reviews
27% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 26 Critic Reviews
49
31% Positive
8 Reviews
42% Mixed
11 Reviews
27% Negative
7 Reviews

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For those of us who hold The Last Picture Show dear, this movie still works as a perfect sequel. It takes a different approach - humor - to enlarge the characters, to show the toll of the intervening decades of American life, to meditate on the sadness of growing old, and demonstrate the precious bond that comes to people with a shared past. [28 Sep 1990]
By William Arnold FULL REVIEW
70
Like any reunion, Texasville is filled with awkward moments. But it's a friendly gathering -- funny, a little sad and worth the visit. [01 Oct 1990, p.70]
By David Ansen FULL REVIEW
60
Texasville rambles along in an amiable way but never gets to the heart of the issues it raises, from the shakiness of modern marriage to the meaning of community in a mobile and increasingly rootless age. [28 Sep 1990, p.14]
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
50
While there's enough to keep the viewer sort of interested and amused, ultimately the whole affair is a trip to nowhere with characters who are more caricature than real. [29 Sep 1990, p.C3]
By Peter Stack FULL REVIEW
40
Peter Bogdanovich's sequel to The Last Picture Show is long on folksy humor and short on plot. In adapting Larry McMurtry's 1987 follow-up novel (predecessor was penned in 1965, filmed in 1971), Bogdanovich uses an impending county centennial celebration as the weak spine for this slice of small-town Texas life.
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25
Where The Last Picture Show was emotionally involving and dramatically episodic, Texasville is sprawling, badly paced and remote. [29 Oct 1990, p.C1]
By Jay Boyar FULL REVIEW
20
A disastrous follow-up to Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, one of the seminal movies of a generation. [28 Sep 1990, p.7]
By Hal Lipper FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cine-Source, Nelson Entertainment
Release Date Sep 28, 1990
Duration 2 h 6 m
Rating R
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Tagline Welcome to Texasville. Hang on to your hat. And your spouse.
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