1918 1985  TV, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ken Harrison
Cast: William Converse-Roberts, Hallie Foote, Rochelle Oliver, Matthew Broderick, Michael Higgins, Jeanne McCarthy, Bill McGhee, Belinda Jackson, L.T. Felty, Michael Higgins, Rochelle Oliver, Betty Murphy
Adapted from Horton Foote's play, this film is about life in a small Texas town. As part of a trilogy, this story involves Southerners adapting to the disasters of a flu epidemic and worries about World War I. This film and one of its prequels, "On Valentine's Day," were packaged for PBS' "American Playhouse" and titled "Story of a Marriage." The other prequel is "Convicts."
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 Urban Cowboy 1980  PG, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Bridges
Cast: John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Charlie Daniels, Bonnie Raitt, Barry Corbin, Cooper Huckabee, James Gammon, Brooke Alderson, Mickey Gilley, Johnny Lee, Betty Murphy, Taz Di Gregorio, Charlie Haywood
Country boy Buford "Bud" Davis (John Travolta) moves to Houston, Texas, and takes a job as a refinery worker. He spends his evenings at Gilley's Club on the outskirts of town where he acts out his cowboy fantasies. He also meets and marries Sissy (Debra Winger), but problems arise almost immediately when Bud believes that Sissy is seeing a mechanical bull-riding cowboy Wes (Scott Glenn). Sissy tells Bud that she wants him to prove he is a real cowboy, and when Mickey Gilley (himself) announces a bull-riding contest, Bill signs up hoping to win the contest and Sally as well. This is the film that made the mechanical bull so popular in bars.
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