Word: honkytonk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pepper this psycho-sexual stew with a generous dose of True West mythos (lassos, gunracks, motel notells), an ensemble cast as good as they get, honkytonk lovesongs and sets designed by Levi-Strauss, and you've got yourself a bowl of three-alarm movie-making...
Horton Foote's lovely screenplay finds its pace and meaning in the slow, plaintive tempo of rural Texas life. Mac teaches Sonny a few guitar chords; he sashays through a honkytonk dance with Rosa Lee; he gets dunked in the christening tub at the local Baptist church; he tries to make peace with his rebellious daughter (Ellen Barkin); he visits Dixie's Tara-size mansion to say an elegy over a dead marriage; he tosses a football around with Sonny. Attuned to the movie's rhythm, the viewer will see wounds heal, friendships ripen, a bond sealed...
Plain Song HONKYTONK MAN Directed by Clint Eastwood Screenplay by Clancy Carlile...
That's all right, though. It is persistence, rather than big talent or bold-stroke heroism, that Honkytonk Man wants to celebrate. If there is a certain amiable reserve about the way the movie states the knothead's case in its early passages, that only makes its conclusion the more gripping. For by the time Red and Whit make Nashville, Red is too sick to appear live on the Opry. His last chance to leave a legacy is to cut an album of his songs, and he almost literally sings his lungs out doing it. If there...
...ever up and die on us?" He can be outraged, as he was last February when the networks aired a cluster of exploitative TV movies on torture, rape, child abuse and teen-age prostitution: "Watching prime-time TV is like being trapped in Sleaze City's tackiest honkytonk. One gets a warped and depressing view of what it means to be alive...