Movie #95: The Last Picture Show

Congratulations 1970s filmmakers.  You displayed that horrible people and actions existed in small-town 1950s even though it wasn't out in the open.  We refuse to acknowledge this base piece of melodramatic, self-pitying drivel with our review system.

However, to show that we ARE learning from our little exercise, a quote from George M. Cohan seems fitting:

I guess people don't understand me anymore, and I don't understand them. It's got so that an evening's entertainment just won't do. Give an audience an evening of what they call realism and you've got a hit. It's getting to be too much for me, kid. . . I'm the little guy who's had enough.

- quoted by Morehouse in George M. Cohan: Prince of the American Theater (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippencott, 1943), pp. 182-183.