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Name: Lone Star
Released: 1996-6-21
Cast: Ron Canada, Chris Cooper, Clifton James, Kris Kristofferson, Frances McDormand

Lone Star

R
2h 15m
1996

91%

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When the sheriff of a small Texas border town finds the body a corrupt former sheriff ousted by his won legendary father, the investigation reopens old wounds in the town that have never healed as well as reveal the secrets behind mysteries in his own family relationships.

Director:

John Sayles

Producer:

R. Paul Miller, Maggie Renzi, John Sloss

Writer:

John Sayles

Cast:

Ron Canada, Chris Cooper, Clifton James, Kris Kristofferson, Frances McDormand, Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, Matthew McConaughey

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

91%

Critics Consensus: Smart and absorbing, Lone Star represents a career high point for writer-director John Sayles -- and '90s independent cinema in general.

Reviews

Boulder Weekly

Michael J. Casey

If you haven’t seen "Lone Star" before, you’ll be gob-smacked a movie this good isn’t talked about more.

John Sayles’s Lone Star is among the most literary films ever made.

Sayles is able to touch on the humanity of each [character] and the details of the region -- the heat, the beautiful but often unforgiving landscape, and especially the pride of the residents -- are vivid and true.

September 6, 2023

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

Michael H. Price

A large-ensemble mystery of a scope far greater than the mere question of whodunit.

September 6, 2023

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Austin American-Statesman

Ann Hornaday

As a graveyard of forgotten dreams spawns a truly revolutionary vision of the future, it's clear that it is precisely Sayles' willingness to confront myth, reality and responsibility... that makes Lone Star a film of such grandeur.

September 6, 2023

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