Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV News
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsABFFPride MonthOutfest OutfrontsSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • All
  • Titles
  • TV Episodes
  • Celebs
  • Companies
  • Keywords
  • Advanced Search
Watchlist
Sign In
Sign In
New Customer? Create account
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
IMDbPro

The Last Picture Show

  • 1971
  • R
  • 1h 58m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
50K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,928
603
Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, and Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
HV Trailer
Play trailer1:27
2 Videos
99+ Photos
DramaRomance

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

  • Director
    • Peter Bogdanovich
  • Writers
    • Larry McMurtry
    • Peter Bogdanovich
  • Stars
    • Timothy Bottoms
    • Jeff Bridges
    • Cybill Shepherd
  • See production, box office & company info
  • IMDb RATING
    8.0/10
    50K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    2,928
    603
    • Director
      • Peter Bogdanovich
    • Writers
      • Larry McMurtry
      • Peter Bogdanovich
    • Stars
      • Timothy Bottoms
      • Jeff Bridges
      • Cybill Shepherd
    • 224User reviews
    • 105Critic reviews
    • 93Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 2 Oscars
      • 19 wins & 22 nominations total

    Videos2

    The Last Picture Show
    Trailer 1:27
    Watch The Last Picture Show
    The Last Picture Show
    Trailer 2:52
    Watch The Last Picture Show

    Photos196

    Jeff Bridges and Timothy Bottoms in The Last Picture Show (1971)
    Jeff Bridges in The Last Picture Show (1971)
    Jeff Bridges and Timothy Bottoms in The Last Picture Show (1971)
    Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, and Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
    Timothy Bottoms and Cloris Leachman in The Last Picture Show (1971)
    Ellen Burstyn and Cybill Shepherd in The Last Picture Show (1971)
    Jeff Bridges, Peter Bogdanovich, and Timothy Bottoms in The Last Picture Show (1971)
    Cloris Leachman at an event for The Last Picture Show (1971)
    Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, and Cybill Shepherd in The Last Picture Show (1971)
    Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, and Cybill Shepherd in The Last Picture Show (1971)
    Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, and Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
    Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, and Cybill Shepherd in The Last Picture Show (1971)

    Top cast

    Edit
    Timothy Bottoms
    Timothy Bottoms
    • Sonny Crawford
    Jeff Bridges
    Jeff Bridges
    • Duane Jackson
    Cybill Shepherd
    Cybill Shepherd
    • Jacy Farrow
    Ben Johnson
    Ben Johnson
    • Sam the Lion
    Cloris Leachman
    Cloris Leachman
    • Ruth Popper
    Ellen Burstyn
    Ellen Burstyn
    • Lois Farrow
    Eileen Brennan
    Eileen Brennan
    • Genevieve
    Clu Gulager
    Clu Gulager
    • Abilene
    Sam Bottoms
    Sam Bottoms
    • Billy
    Sharon Ullrick
    Sharon Ullrick
    • Charlene Duggs
    • (as Sharon Taggart)
    Randy Quaid
    Randy Quaid
    • Lester Marlow
    Joe Heathcock
    • The Sheriff
    Bill Thurman
    Bill Thurman
    • Coach Popper
    Barc Doyle
    • Joe Bob Blanton
    Jessie Lee Fulton
    Jessie Lee Fulton
    • Miss Mosey
    Gary Brockette
    Gary Brockette
    • Bobby Sheen
    Helena Humann
    • Jimmie Sue
    Loyd Catlett
    Loyd Catlett
    • Leroy
    • Director
      • Peter Bogdanovich
    • Writers
      • Larry McMurtry
      • Peter Bogdanovich
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    More like this

    Paper Moon
    8.1
    Paper Moon
    Five Easy Pieces
    7.4
    Five Easy Pieces
    Nashville
    7.6
    Nashville
    Texasville
    5.9
    Texasville
    The Last Detail
    7.5
    The Last Detail
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    7.6
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    Midnight Cowboy
    7.8
    Midnight Cowboy
    Easy Rider
    7.3
    Easy Rider
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    8.0
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    Bonnie and Clyde
    7.7
    Bonnie and Clyde
    All That Jazz
    7.8
    All That Jazz
    Targets
    7.3
    Targets

    Storyline

    Edit

    Did you know

    Edit
    • Trivia
      At 9 minutes and 54 seconds, Ben Johnson's performance in this movie is the shortest to ever win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
    • Goofs
      When Duane returns to Anarene toward the end of the film, he is on leave from the US Army in the middle of the Korean War, around 1952. His hair is too long to pass Army regulations, which limit the length of a soldier's hair, after he has completed basic training. His hair would be too long even for today's Army. Moreover, Duane has sideburns, which the Army would never have permitted.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Ruth Popper: Never you mind, honey. Never you mind.

    • Alternate versions
      Special edition includes seven minutes of footage not included in the original release.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Last Picture Show Re-Release Promo (1971)
    • Soundtracks
      Cold, Cold Heart
      (uncredited)

      Written by Hank Williams (as Hank Williams Sr.)

      Performed by Tony Bennett

    User reviews224

    Review
    Review
    Featured review
    10/10
    A Sense Of Realism
    This is a character study wherein the main character is a small West Texas town, circa 1951. In the U.S., the early 1950s symbolized a transition from nineteenth century agrarian values to twentieth century urbanism. In the film, various people who live in the town must confront the reality that time moves on. Things change. Assumptions of previous generations give way to the untested assumptions of the future. The film's theme is thus American cultural change, and the personal disillusionment that such change can bring. It is a powerful theme, and the film imparts that theme with logical clarity and emotional frankness.

    In the hands of lesser talents, the subject matter of unimportant people doing unimportant things might have yielded a tiresome soap opera. But the film's script is poetic, the direction is skillful, the B&W cinematography is artistic, the casting is perfect, and the performances are superlative.

    The story draws heavily from early American individualism. Life here is mostly physical, not mental. Human relationships are direct, immediate, one-on-one. Except for schools, which are given some prominence, cultural institutions exist in the film only vaguely or not at all. For entertainment, people listen to radio, which features the mournful country-western music of Hank Williams. Or, they go to the town's decrepit picture show, where an elderly Miss Mosey kindly returns money to the kids who got there too late to see the cartoons.

    If the film has a weakness it is in the presentation of a realism that is incomplete. We see mostly stifling bleakness, though that is ameliorated somewhat by humor. What we don't see are the uplifting influences and the optimism that sustained agrarian generations through hardships and rough times.

    Nevertheless, within the film's story parameters, the film does convey an accurate account of what life was like for ordinary folks in West Texas in the early 1950s. I doubt that this film could be made today. Contemporary audiences have been conditioned to expect non-stop action, loudness, glitz, and overblown special effects, all of which are absent, mercifully, from this film.

    Low-key, perceptive, bleak, and melancholy, "The Last Picture Show" easily makes my list of Top Ten favorite films of all time.
    helpful•151
    24
    • Lechuguilla
    • Jan 29, 2006

    Top picks

    Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations
    Sign in

    FAQ10

    • What is 'The Last Picture Show' about?
    • Is 'The Last Picture Show' based on a book?
    • Where is Anarene, Texas?

    Details

    Edit
    • Release date
      • October 22, 1971 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Zadnja predstava
    • Filming locations
      • 605 South Ash Street, Archer City, Texas, USA(high school)
    • Production companies
      • Columbia Pictures
      • BBS Productions
      • Last Picture Show Productions
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Box office

    Edit
    • Budget
      • $1,300,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $29,133,000
    • Gross worldwide
      • $29,146,131
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

    Edit
    • Runtime
      1 hour 58 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

    Related news

    Contribute to this page

    Suggest an edit or add missing content
    Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, and Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
    Top Gap
    By what name was The Last Picture Show (1971) officially released in India in Hindi?
    Answer
    • See more gaps
    • Learn more about contributing
    Edit page

    More to explore

    Recently viewed

    Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
    Get the IMDb App
    Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
    • Get the IMDb App
    • Help
    • Site Index
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • IMDb Developer
    • Press Room
    • Advertising
    • Jobs
    • Conditions of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Your Ads Privacy Choices
    IMDb, an Amazon company

    © 1990-2023 by IMDb.com, Inc.