Screenplay: Larry McMurtry

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Larry McMurtry. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Last Picture Show

1971 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Timothy Bottoms · Jeff Bridges · Cybill Shepherd · Ben Johnson

Synopsis This coming-of-age tale set in the 50s focuses on best friends Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) and their relationships. Duane is dating the beautiful but fickle Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd), a good girl who is looking...

7.8

8K votes

7.8

8K votes

Lonesome Dove (TV Miniseries)

1989 · Series · 384 min. · United States

Direction Simon Wincer

Cast Robert Duvall · Tommy Lee Jones · Danny Glover · Diane Lane

Synopsis Two retired Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae (Robert Duvall) and Woodrow Call (Tommy Lee Jones) drive a herd of stolen cattle from the Rio Grande to Montana in the 1870s. They leave the town of Lonesome Dove and in their way...

7.4

435 votes

7.4

435 votes

Hud

1963 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Paul Newman · Melvyn Douglas · Patricia Neal · Brandon De Wilde

Synopsis Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Brokeback Mountain

2005 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Ang Lee

Cast Heath Ledger · Jake Gyllenhaal · Anne Hathaway · Michelle Williams

Synopsis The story of two young men, Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox...

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7.0

77K votes

7.0

77K votes

Terms of Endearment

1983 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction James L. Brooks

Cast Debra Winger · Shirley MacLaine · Jack Nicholson · Danny DeVito

Synopsis An account of the complex and difficult relationship between a mother (Shirley MacLaine) and a daughter (Debra Winger) as they face life's challenges over three decades.

6.8

21K votes

6.8

21K votes

Comanche Moon (TV Miniseries)

2008 · Movie · 360 min. · United States

Direction Simon Wincer

Cast Val Kilmer · Steve Zahn · Troy Baker · Linda Cardellini

Synopsis In the highly anticipated prequel to the Emmy Award-winning mini-series, LONESOME DOVE, Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae (Steve Zahn)and Woodrow F. Call (Karl Urban) are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life - Gus with his...

6.5

23 votes

6.5

23 votes

Joe Bell

2020 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Reinaldo Marcus Green

Cast Mark Wahlberg · Reid Miller · Connie Britton · Gary Sinise

Synopsis Joe’s (Wahlberg) teenage son Jadin has grown into a beautiful, talented young gay man, but he’s bullied mercilessly at his high school, and Joe’s grudging “tolerance” of his son is no help. Joe could have been permanently broken by regret,...

6.0

460 votes

6.0

460 votes

Texasville

1990 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Jeff Bridges · Cybill Shepherd · Annie Potts · Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis Director Peter Bogdanovich revisits small-town Texas life in the long-awaited sequel to his 1971 masterpiece THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. It’s been over 30 years since Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges), Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms), and Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd) graduated from...

5.9

659 votes

5.9

659 votes

Direction Mike Robe

Cast Jon Voight · Barbara Hershey · Rick Schroder · William Petersen

Synopsis Captain Call has just buried Gus at Lonesome Dove and plans to head back to his ranch in Montana. Looking at a herd of wild Mustangs, he decides to drive them north with the help of Isom and Gideon Walker....

5.9

23 votes

5.9

23 votes

Buffalo Girls (TV)

1995 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

Direction Rod Hardy

Cast Anjelica Huston · Melanie Griffith · Gabriel Byrne · Peter Coyote

Synopsis Buffalo Girls celebrates the bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the waning days of the Wild West and Jane, the rough 'n' rugged cowgirl, is searching not only for her long-lost daughter, but the...

5.5

39 votes

5.5

39 votes

Streets of Laredo (TV Miniseries)

1995 · Series · 300 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast James Garner · Sissy Spacek · Sam Shepard · Ned Beatty

Synopsis Captain Woodrow Call, now retired from the Rangers, is a bounty hunter. He is hired by an eastern rail baron to track down Joey Garza, a new kind of killer, only a boy, who kills from a distance with a...

5.2

63 votes

5.2

63 votes

The Evening Star

1996 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Robert Harling

Cast Shirley MacLaine · Bill Paxton · Juliette Lewis · Miranda Richardson

Synopsis Picking up the story thread left by 1983's Terms of Endearment, this overwrought sequel is made palatable by Shirley MacLaine's charismatic performance, which in turn is nearly equaled by Marion Ross's role as her housekeeper. An unexpected surprise, Ross obviously...

4.9

830 votes

4.9

830 votes

4.2

40 votes

Lovin' Molly

1974 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Anthony Perkins · Beau Bridges · Blythe Danner · Edward Binns

Synopsis Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.

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Direction Allan Kroeker · Brad Turner · Ken Jubenvill · George Mendeluk

Cast Scott Bairstow · Eric McCormack · Kelly Rowan · Paul Johansson

Synopsis "Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years" begins two years after the end of "Lonesome Dove". After two years spent bounty hunting, womanizing, and drinking away the painful memories of his late wife, Hannah, Newt Call returns to town to find many...

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Montana (TV)

1990 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction William A. Graham

Cast Gena Rowlands · Richard Crenna · Lea Thompson · Justin Deas

Synopsis Hoyce and Bess Guthrie are long married Montana ranchers who come to a major crossroads in their lives. An oil company has offered to buy them out and Hoyce wants to sell while Bess hopes to keep the land in...

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Direction William Hale

Cast Jack Lemmon · Richard Jordan · Robert Prosky · Peter Gallagher

Synopsis From a true story. In Atlanta in 1913, a 13-year-old girl is murdered in the factory where she works. The factory manager, a Jew named Leo Frank, is convicted and sentenced to hang. Georgia Governor John Slaton suspects that Frank...

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Lonesome Dove: The Series (TV Series)

1994 · Series · 42 min. · Canada

Direction Donald Shebib · Sidney J. Furie · Mark Sobel · Michael Keusch

Cast Scott Bairstow · Christianne Hirt · Eric McCormack · Paul Le Mat

Synopsis The Series revolves around the life and times of Newt Call as he sets out to make his way in the world. Newt participates in some of the major events of the Western era while encountering some of the frontier's...

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Falling from Grace

1992 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction John Mellencamp

Cast John Mellencamp · Mariel Hemingway · Claude Akins · Dub Taylor

Synopsis Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by "Lonesome Dove" author, Larry McMurtry. The story, not too separated from Mellencamp's real life, finds him as a country music star whose meanderings and philandering has...

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