High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.

• DirectorPeter Bogdanovich
• Release3 October 1971
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration1h 59m
• Budget$1,300,000
• Revenue$29,133,000
• Rate
  

  7.6
  739 reviews
• Productions

  BBS Productions, Columbia Pictures