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...whose Mother died when he was three, lives with his eighteen-year-old brother. Mason (Jim Matzler). Their ne'er-do-well father follows the radio cirucit and offers neither financial nor emotional support. When the film begins. Pops McCormick (Bill McKinney) hasn't been heard from in over five months. Tex's best friend Johnny Coles (Emulo Eztevez) lives a far different life. The son of a wealthy man, Johnny own a motorcycle, on which he drives Johnny one day as they walk into class "She must be a pain at home...
Director Tim Hunter handles this theme subtlely Tex the "stayer" has a "goer" closer to home in Mason, who hopes to win a basketball scholarship to Indiana State University Mason explains his reasons to Tax simply. "Number one, it's the best team in its league, and number two, it's not in Oklahoma." Because Tex's surprise at his brother's dissatisfaction borders on confusion, if underscores Tex's innocence he only wants others to feel as content as he does "Don't worry," he tells Mason as their funds begin to run down. "Pop's coming back...
...while Tex undoubtedly moves the audience--a braw I between Tex and Mason becomes painful to watch because they both are right--the film never becomes mawkish. Much of the credit for this goes to Hinton. Hunter and Charlie Hass who adapted the novel They pepper Tex with homespun locutions. "I'don't like all that femalism stuff," one soon-to-be says. "You men he got an entire woman pregnant?" another asks later. More important, though, and more interestingly, much of the screenplay's success results from lines that are never spoken. Many people get into fights...
...similar manner, when Tex returns homes late and drunk after a party. Mason doesn't say "Where were you? I was worried" or "I waited up for you." He just gets up, turns off the light, walks into his room, changes and goes to bed. The brothers relationship is so well established by this time that Mason's concern seems a given. It comes as no surprise when he soon thereafter goes into Tex's room seems his brother sprawled on his bed, and removes Tex's boots Touches like these quietly make life in Bixby seem not altogether unpromising...
...film contains some problems. Several revelations arrive completely unexpected, other scenes seem unnecessarily melodramatic if not unnecessary altogether. And Estevez's Johnny Coles remains a flat character throughout. But Metzler's Mason and Dillion's Tex carry a film greatly helped by a wonderful screenplay...