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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Texasville (1990)






Jeff Bridges Film Fest Movie #12

Synopsis: This is just like The Last Picture Show, except it’s a comedy, it’s filmed in glorious colour, everyone’s a lot older, Jeff Bridges – not Timothy Bottoms – plays the protagonist, and.... actually, it’s almost nothing like The Last Picture Show.
 
Blurb From the VHS Jacket: “Welcome to Texasville. Hang on to your hat. And your spouse.” 

What Did I Learn?: Cybill Shepherd is a bad actress. Then again, I should have remembered that from The Lady Vanishes


Really?: 1) Everyone’s incredibly blasé about all the pre-marital, and extra-marital affairs going on, aren’t they? Do rich people really behave this way in real life? 2) Wow – take a drink every time the gang goes out for breakfast. 

Rating: Texasville never really looks or feels like a true sequel to The Last Picture Show (see: “Synopsis”); it’s a nice little movie with a few good moments, but Bottoms, Cloris Leachman and Eileen Brennan are wasted in meaningless roles – it’s the basically the Jeff-and-Cybill-Show -  and the whole thing seems a bit lighthearted-but-aimless. 7/10 stars. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103069/?ref_=nv_sr_1

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