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Honkytonk Man (1982)
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15 December 1982 (USA)
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The boy is on his way to becoming a man. The man is on his way to becoming a legend.
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As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit...
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1 nomination
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the story of many a musician
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Clint Eastwood | ... | Red Stovall |
 | Kyle Eastwood | ... | Whit |
| John McIntire | ... | Grandpa |
| Alexa Kenin | ... | Marlene |
| Verna Bloom | ... | Emmy |
| Matt Clark | ... | Virgil |
 | Barry Corbin | ... | Arnspringer |
| Jerry Hardin | ... | Snuffy |
 | Tim Thomerson | ... | Highway Patrolman |
 | Macon McCalman | ... | Dr. Hines |
 | Joe Regalbuto | ... | Henry Axle |
| Gary Grubbs | ... | Jim Bob |
| Rebecca Clemons | ... | Belle |
| Johnny Gimble | ... | Bob Wills |
| Linda Hopkins | ... | Blues Singer |
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122 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Finland:K-8 |
Australia:PG (video rating) |
Spain:T |
Argentina:13 |
Canada:14A (Ontario) |
South Korea:12 |
Australia:M |
Norway:12 |
UK:15 |
USA:PG (certificate #26873) |
West Germany:12 |
Singapore:PG
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The script originally called for Kyle Eastwood's character to get high from smoking marijuana, but Clint Eastwood, who is very anti-drug, refused, even with Kyle even using a prop cigarette. Eastwood finally relented to his son's character getting high from a contact buzz.
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Red Stovall:
Mary was right to go back to her husband. What the hell did I have to offer a kid? Just honky-tonks and flop-houses. That's the life of a country singer, Hoss. Sound good to you?
Whit: It don't sound too hot when you put it like that, but it sure beats picking cotton and living in a sharecropper's shack.
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Whit: It don't sound too hot when you put it like that, but it sure beats picking cotton and living in a sharecropper's shack.
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Featured in Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso (1993) (TV)
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No Sweeter Cheater Than You
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...and for that matter any human being.
Clint Eastwood's little masterpiece is filled with insights of human
nature and our dreams and how futile but nonetheless honorable
they are in most cases.
Watch out for many keys to understand low(er) class white Americans
and how music is one of the very best ways to bring them together
with, or at least closer to, African Americans. Without gospel, blues
and jazz - three styles developed by black people in the US during
the early 20th century - there would (arguably) be no country music and of
course no pop music (as it is today).
I am a musician and this little masterpiece certainly means a lot to
me and my colleagues all over the world.
This movie definitely is a metaphor of life and Clint Eastwood uses his second passion after cinema, music, as the
base but it contains so much more deep philosophy and homage
that I do not hesitate calling it a small masterpiece.
IMHO Honkytonk Man is for Clint Eastwood what Little Man Tate
(1991) is for Jodie Foster - only better, much better. Just think
about the fact that Clint went back (explained in a monologue) for
his skinny girl. After all he did love her.
It takes cojones to make a movie like that. Great work Mr.
Eastwood.