8.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 8.7
Overview
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film is a melancholic character study of a dying small town and its inhabitants, focusing on themes of loss of innocence and stagnation. It offers no explicit political solutions or critiques, presenting an observational narrative that transcends partisan ideologies.
The movie features a predominantly white cast, accurately reflecting its 1950s small-town Texas setting, with no explicit diversity-driven casting choices. The narrative explores universal themes of youth and aging through its characters without critiquing traditional identities or incorporating explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
The Last Picture Show, set in a small Texas town in the early 1950s, focuses on the coming-of-age experiences of its heterosexual protagonists. The narrative explores themes of youth, love, loss, and the decline of a community. There are no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes present within the film's storyline or character arcs.
The Last Picture Show does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative is centered on cisgender experiences of adolescence, sexuality, and small-town life in the 1950s, thus making the portrayal of transsexual identity not applicable to this film.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film is an adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel. All major and minor characters in the film retain the same gender as established in the original source material, with no instances of a character's gender being changed.
The film is an adaptation of Larry McMurtry's 1966 novel. All major characters, who were established as white in the source material set in a 1950s Texas town, are portrayed by white actors in the 1971 film adaptation.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.0
7.6
Critic Ratings
9.8
9.3
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