Lone Star (1996)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Jun 21, 1996
Running Time: 134 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Two off-duty sergeants from an Army post near the Texas border town of Frontera find skeletal remains and a rusty sheriff's badge on an abandoned rifle range. Frontera's current sheriff, Sam Deeds, son of the late legendary lawman Buddy Deeds, begins an investigation. Sam quickly learns that the bones are those of the corrupt sheriff his father was reputed to have run out of town, Charley Wade. Sam's hostile relationship with his father had driven him out of Frontera and only since the old man's death has he returned. Now that Mayor Hollis Pogue and the city council plan to name the new courthouse after Buddy Deeds, Sam's old feelings about his father resurface. In the border towns that bridge the Rio Grande, against a tapestry of historical, familial and individual passions, promises and deceptions, "Lone Star" unfolds.
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December 8, 2000
Lone Star

738/39 7/11-25/96
A great movie is a rare find among the escapist cheese balls of summer. Lone Star is 134 minutes long, but writer and director John Sayles -- whose no-bull credo has held from 1980's Return of the Secaucus 7 to last year's The Secret of Roan Inish -- makes every hotblooded and hypootic minute count. The place is the border town of Frontera, Texas. The time is 1957, when lawman Buddy Deeds (Matthew McConaughey, headed for star status in the upcoming A Time to Kill)… Continued

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December 19, 2000
A great movie is a rare find among the escapist cheese balls of summer. Lone Star is 134 minutes long, but writer and director John Sayles -- whose no-bull credo has held from 1980's Return of the Secaucus 7 to last year's The Secret of Roan Inish -- makes every hotblooded and hypootic minute count. The place is the border town of Frontera, Texas. The time is 1957, when lawman Buddy Deeds (Matthew McConaughey, headed for star status in the upcoming A Time to Kill) becomes Frontera's hero by… Continued