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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Clancy Carlile (novel)
Clancy Carlile (screenplay)
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Release Date:
15 December 1982 (USA) more
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Tagline:
The boy is on his way to becoming a man. The man is on his way to becoming a legend.
Plot:
As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
the story of many a musician more (22 total)

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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Additional Details

Runtime:
122 min
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Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

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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. more
Quotes:
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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Movie Connections:
Featured in Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso (1993) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
No Sweeter Cheater Than You more

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4 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
the story of many a musician, 22 July 2004
Author: nitratestock35 from Portugal

...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.

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