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The Last Picture Show
By Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich - Film
Roles
- Ruth Popper - Adult (36-50), Female
About this piece
Ruth flips out on Sonny
Summary
Set in the 50s in a small Texas town, this is a coming of age drama about a group of young kids between boyhood and manhood. One of them is Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms), who has an affair with the 40 year old wife of his highschool baseball team coach, Ruth Popper. However when he gets the chance to date Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd), the pretties girl in town, he soon forgets about Ruth. This scene comes at the end of the movie. Billy, a friend of Sonny's, dies when he is run over by a truck. Sonny is distraught and ends up at Ruth's place and asks if he can walk in for a cup of coffee. She lets him in but soon flips out on him, throws the cup of coffee to the wall and shouts at him for leaving her....
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