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Certificate 15

Cast Jeff Bridges Cybill Shepherd Timothy Bottoms Cloris Leachman

Directors Peter Bogdanovich

Screenwriters Larry McMurtry Peter Bogdanovich

Running Time 118 minutes

The Last Picture Show
A masterful exploration of love, loneliness, innocence lost, and small-town disillusionment

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Plot
Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time at the movie house, playing basketball, and chasing girls. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and their decrepit movie house, which faces closure.

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