What is The Last Picture Show / Saint Jack about?

Name: The Last Picture Show / Saint Jack
Genre: Drama

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, 1971, Sony Repertory, 118 min. Dir. Peter Bogdanovich. The film stars Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms and Cybill Shepherd (in her first role) as a trio of sexually-confused teens trapped in a dying, dust-blown town. SAINT JACK, 1979, Concorde-New Horizon, 112 min. One of director Peter Bogdanovich’s best and most underrated films is adapted from the Paul Theroux novel and features a fine, alternately funny and poignant performance by Ben Gazzara as an easygoing, expatriate American pimp in Vietnam-era Singapore. Exceptionally authentic location atmosphere highlights this fascinating saga, a perfect balance of character study focusing on redemptive individual independence, and the treachery of sexual and Cold War politics.

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What is The Last Picture Show / Saint Jack about?: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, 1971, Sony Repertory, 118 min. Dir. Peter Bogdanovich. The film stars Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms and Cybill Shepherd (in her first role) as a trio of sexually-confused teens trapped in a dying, dust-blown town.

SAINT JACK, 1979, Concorde-New Horizon, 112 min. One of director Peter Bogdanovich’s best and most underrated films is adapted from the Paul Theroux novel and features a fine, alternately funny and poignant performance by Ben Gazzara as an easygoing, expatriate American pimp in Vietnam-era Singapore. Exceptionally authentic location atmosphere highlights this fascinating saga, a perfect balance of character study focusing on redemptive individual independence, and the treachery of sexual and Cold War politics.