Narrated in the third-person omniscient perspective, the story begins in 1950s Thalia, Texas. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning two Oscars for Best Supporting Actor (Ben Johnson) and Best Supporting Actress (Cloris Leachman). In 1971, The Last Picture Show was adapted into a commercial and critical hit motion picture directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Jeff Bridges as Duane, Timothy Bottoms as Sonny, and Cybill Shepherd as Jacy. The novel is the first in a five-part Duane Moore series, followed by Texasville, Duane’s Depressed, When the Light Goes, and Rhino Ranch.
As the three teenagers experience a series of memorable episodes such as nude pool parties and witnessing the only movie theater in town shut down, they gain invaluable wisdom and begin to come of age as the times begin to change. Duane Moore wants to marry his girlfriend Jacy Farrow, his close pal Sonny Crawford wants what Duane has, and Jacy wants nothing more than to escape Thalia any way she can. Set in Thalia, Texas in the mid-1950s, the story follows the lives of three teenagers wandering through adolescence in a tiny town where very little happens. The Last Picture Show is the 1966 western fiction bildungsroman novel written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry.
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