Tex (1982)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Tim Hunter

Writers:

S.E. Hinton (novel)
Charles S. Haas (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

30 July 1982 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Family

Tagline:

From the author and the star of "The Outrsiders" - the story of a young man who wouldn't be beaten.

Plot:

Coming-of-age adventure about two teenage brothers and their struggles to grow up, on their own, after their mother dies and their father leaves them. |

Plot Keywords:

Coming Of Age | Brother | Teen Angst | Bittersweet | Juvenile Delinquent

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations

Cast

Matt Dillon	...	Tex McCormick
Jim Metzler	...	Mason McCormick
Meg Tilly	...	Jamie Collins
Bill McKinney	...	Pop McCormick
Frances Lee McCain	...	Mrs. Johnson
Ben Johnson	...	Cole Collins
Phil Brock	...	Lem Peters
Emilio Estevez	...	Johnny Collins
Jack Thibeau	...	Coach Jackson
Zeljko Ivanek	...	Hitchhiker
Tom Virtue	...	Bob Collins
Pamela Ludwig	...	Connie
Jeff Fleury	...	Roger
Suzanne Costollos	...	Fortune Teller (as Suzanne Costallos)
Marilyn Redfield	...	Ms. Carlson

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:L | Australia:PG | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Bell's Amusement Park - 3901 E. 21st Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

The movie is set about 10 years after the end of the novel That Was Then, This is Now. Two characters make appearances in Tex: Cathy Carlson, as Tex's English teacher, and the hitchhiker, who is Mark in disguise, escaped from prison.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Tex and Mason run the truck into the ditch with the hitch hiker the passenger side window that should be up is down, then up, then down again. When the driver’s side window is shot out by the police, you can see a second pane of glass with a bullet hole behind the shattered glass.

Quotes:

Lem Peters: [to mason about why he sells dope] You don't have people depending on you, to take care of!
Tex McCormick: [In Lem's new car] Come on, let's go for a ride!
Mason McCormick: [Points at Tex] What do you think he is? A baboon!
Tex McCormick: Who me?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in That Was Then... This Is Now (1985)

Matt Dillon's cinematic S.E. Hinton trilogy begins

I would rank "Tex" as the second best of the S.E. Hinton adaptations starring Matt Dillon (happy birthday, Matt!) behind "The Outsiders"; "Rumble Fish" was too weird to make any sense. This one casts him a young man trying to make his way in Oklahoma after his mother dies. Although its status as a Disney movie gives it kind of a strange feeling, it still comes out very well, with good performances by pretty much all the cast members. But I will say that he reached his apex with "The Outsiders". In all these movies, he was showing the sort of talent that eventually earned him an Oscar nomination for "Crash". Worth seeing. Also starring Meg Tilly, Frances Lee McCain (the "Gremlins" mom), Ben Johnson, Emilio Estevez and Zeljko Ivanek.