Konterr Brilliant and touching

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

grantss Good sequel to the superb The Last Picture Show, also directed by Peter Bogdanovich, 19 years earlier. Whereas The Last Picture Show dealt with the decline of small-town America, Texasville shows it still exists, but barely. Focuses on the lives of several middle- aged people, mostly the main characters from The Last Picture Show, and how their hopes and dreams have faded and reality is less pleasant.The feeling of nostalgia, of tedium, of lives going nowhere, yet hope within that emptiness, is tangible. Among this drama, there is great humour, however.Superb performances all round. This role was probably the one that turned Jeff Bridges into the downtrodden, bedraggled anti-hero, and launched countless roles for home. Cybill Shepherd is solid as Jacy. Next to Bridges, the star turn belongs to Annie Potts who is simultaneously beautiful, funny, sassy and intelligent as Karla.Ultimately does really make as big an impression as The Last Picture Show, and sort of fizzles out towards the end. The destination is quite tame, but the journey is worth taking.

moonspinner55 Director Peter Bogdanovich's failed follow-up to his critical breakthrough film, 1971's "The Last Picture Show", returns to small town Texas to catch up on the lives of those once-compelling characters. Bogdanovich, who--in a replay of the first film--also adapted Larry McMurtry's novel, is now too jaded to see much joy or dramatic irony in these surroundings, and the sterling cast he has assembled just seems disheartened. The plot, a rumination of Jeff Bridges' Duane Jackson (who is now an unhappily married oil-man dissatisfied with his job and life), doesn't built any momentum, emotional, dramatic or otherwise, and the director follows a botched pattern: one flabby, talky sequence after another. * from ****

whpratt1 After reading a book written by Cybill Shepherd entitled,"Cybill Disobedience", where she describes in detail a great deal of the behind the scenes in the making of this picture and also "The Last Picture Show". Cybill also mentions the director of this picture, Peter Bogdanovich, a very long time warm and affectionate friend. Cybill played the role as (Jacy Farrow),"The Last Picture Show",'71,along with Jeff Bridges (Duane Jackson). These two were teenage's in high school and did more than skinny dip in the lake. Jacy was a movie star who returned to her hometown after very tragic events in her life and needed the comfort from all her home town friends, especially Duane and his family, including mostly his wife. Cloris Leachman(Ruth Popper),"Never Too Late",'97, gave a great supporting role along with Eileen Brennan(Geneuieve Morgan),"Private Benjamin",'80. Peter Boganovich tried to make this picture into a masterpiece like his award winning "The Last Picture Show" and also "Targets", starring Boris Karloff, but this picture did not quite measure up to his high standards of Directing! Cybill Shepherd & Jeff Bridges great acting skills made this film worth WATCHING!

J_Knox Texasville is easily one of my favorite movies of all time because it doesn't go down the easy road, trying to please everyone, by being the same movie as Last Picture Show was. However, after having seen both Picture Show and Texasville back to back I noticed how surprisingly similar in context and theme they are. Both are about sad adults who look longingly onto the younger generation, all the while committing adultery as a way of recapturing their youth. I love both Picture Show and Texasville equally; but have a soft spot for Texasville because I was 11 during the timeframe shown in the movie, and 17 when it came out in 1990 so it is a bit more relevant to me. Also the dark humor helps make the film more enjoyable for those hot summer nights when the urge hits me to see it.I've never thought of Texasville as fiction, more as cinematic fact. It's about as close to real life as you'll get without living it yourself. It was one of the first films I saw in a theatre as a cinema "connoisseur" and it'd be a shame to let it fade into obscurity. I highly recommend it to anyone reading this, a true minor masterpiece