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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304225134 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 630422513X Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Running Time: 135 minutes Sales Rank: 18267 Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: June 21, 1996
Amazon.com essential video: This complex and rich film by John Sayles stars Chris Cooper as the contemporary sheriff of a Texas border town still under the sway of his late, legendary lawman father (Matthew McConaughey, seen in flashbacks). The discovery of a skeleton and crusted-over badge--buried some 40 years--initiates an investigation into an old crime no one wants to talk about but which will determine for Cooper's character, once and for all, various truths about his father's life. Sayles ingeniously sets this mystery against the backdrop of a developing, multicultural community losing its economic base while haggling over a history of racism. The overall effect is of a complicated American tragedy mitigated by the possibility of personal redemption. A terrific experience. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Major whodoneit soap
Good who done it soap with good cast, script and plot. A little bit of everything from a little Texas town just north of the Rio Grande...plus the kitchen sink. John Wayne movies were never like this!
Rating: - Exceptional.
I had forgotten how good Lone Star is. The simplest way to explain it, is that its No Country For Old Men without the blood bath. But its much more, with its interlocking stories about forgiveness.
It will seem as slow as a Texas border town to those looking for Young Guns. Their loss.
Rating: - A lot of power
Excellently subtle tapestry of race matters, family secrets & romantic irony in a sleepy Texas border town. A film to watch more than once. Excellent casting.
Rating: - Lone Star
Reuniting Sayles with his "Matewan" star Cooper, this border-town mystery exemplifies Sayles's talent for telling compelling human stories that deal with important social issues- in this case, illegal immigration, family legacies, and the scourge of racism. Cooper, Pena, and then-unknown McConaughey are superb in their roles, and Kristofferson stands out as the mean, rough-edged, intimidating Wade. Sayles's low-key approach works in favor of the film's almost novelistic feel, which nicely balances elements of suspense with heartache as it alternates between past and present. "Lone Star" is a complex, ... Read More
Rating: - American Masterpiece
There have been six Masterpieces produced in American Cinema that go to the heart of being an american (if this doesn't start a war I don't know what will!). They are in order:
Citizen Kane - 1941
Casablanca - 1942
The Last Picture Show - 1971
American Graffitti - 1973
Parenthood - 1989
Lonestar - 1996
They vary as much as they remain cohesive. They were made by visionary Directors, with the exception of Casablanca which represents the best of American film making by committee, and they all share one American attribute that will garner them immortality ... Read More
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