The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and co-written by Bogdanovich and Larry McMurtry, adapted from the 1966 semi-autobiographical novel by M

The Last Picture Show is a coming-of-age novel by Larry McMurtry published in 1966 by The Dial Press. Set in the small fictional town of Thalia, Texas in the early 1950s, the novel explores the lives