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	Lone Star Stephen J. Lang, Chris Cooper Turner Home Ent, 1999 average customer review:based on 79 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I saw this movie when it was first released, and then again this week-end on TNT. It's one of the best films I've seen and I plan to purchase it for my library.

It doesn't have a lot of action and the plots develop slowly, but, like In the Heat of the Night, there is not one throw-away scene.

I've never seen Kristofferson so evil...his work was real enough to be very, very scary. I liked Chris Cooper and Frances McDormand is a riot in her all-too-brief scene as Cooper's strung-out ex-wife.

I live in a small town in east Texas and I know people like the Sheriff, Big O, Buddy and the others.

The plot twist at the end might be a bit off-putting for some, but, to me, it just added to the quality of the writing, directing, acting and drama.

This is a movie to be savored. Do not expect action, car crashes or surrealistice special effects. It's a film about real people facing real issues and doing their best to right some very bad wrongs.

Enjoy!

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Absorbing subject matter and a good tale, too!

This restrained but well-paced movie offers an unusual and extremely refreshing look at Texas and how its checkered history affects its present. Sayles is not afraid to spend time carefully building up his characters, all from varied ethnic, social and professional backgrounds. But there is a good strong plot there, too - a murder mystery that has the potential to cause profound disruptions in a community trying to overcome or perhaps just forget its past. Longish, but very highly recommended.


Try To Forget

Good. Evil. Relationships between parents and children. History. Racism. Ethnic pride. Status. Murder. Economic stresses. Politics. The fact that John Sayles has been able to make us think about all these issues and more, makes this movie, its actors, photography, and soundtrack unforgetable. Sayles doesn't make easy movies, just ones that make adults thankful for his talent and intelligence.

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Warner Bros is the real criminal in this low-key whodunit

John Sayles and this movie are too good to deserve the minimalist treatment Warners gave them when they put this DVD together. There is virtually NOTHING extra--no director's commentary, no behind-the-scenes featurette, no cast and crew biographies (Sayles uses an amazing cast, each of which I wanted to know more about). Ironically, considering the importance of multiculturalism as a theme of the movie, there isn't even a Spanish audio track. And when will the studios learn that theatrical trailers are NOT value-added features?

I'm glad to own the film (though there was a funny blip in the middle of it)...but I think Warners could have given us more. And more importantly, John Sayles deserves better.

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