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Paris, Texas

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A disheveled man who wanders out of the desert, Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) seems to have no idea who he is. When a stranger manages to contact his brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell), Travis is awkwardly reunited with his sibling. Travis has been missing for years, and his presence unsettles Walt and his family, which also includes Travis's own son, Hunter (Hunter Carson). Soon Travis must confront his wife, Jane (Nastassja Kinski), and try to put his life back together.
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A quiet yet deeply moving kind of Western, Paris, Texas captures a place and people like never before (or after).

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Kevin Maher Times (UK) The panoramic vistas from the cinematographer Robby Müller are as breathtaking as any John Ford western, while the naturalistic performances and deft narrative structure make this the strongest movie in the career of its director, Wim Wenders. Sep 14, 2023 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian ... An eerie, sad story whose meaning disappears over the vast horizon as if on a highway heading away through the desert. Rated: 5/5 Jul 27, 2022 Full Review Joe Pollack St. Louis Post-Dispatch It's a striking, gripping film for most of its length, with Wenders and cinematographer Robby Muller showing a great love of and fascination for the land -- almost as if their European upbringings had made them slightly envious of the wide-open spaces. Oct 7, 2021 Full Review Jeff Beck The Blu Spot Even after 40 years, Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas remains a quietly powerful, emotionally rich character study that explores its relationships and central mystery in a remarkably compelling fashion. Rated: 4.5/5 Dec 9, 2024 Full Review Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal Nothing literally detonates, but the film locks into connotations of the Big Bang it references — how sustained shouts transform densely packed atoms into an explosion that flings us farther apart than we could imagine and into a vast, strange new world. Rated: 4.5/5 Nov 26, 2024 Full Review Jacob Austin PopMatters In Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas, Travis is adrift, caught in the comma between the liminal Paris and the redemptive Texas, between lost futures and the impermeable present. Jun 15, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member One of the greatest films ever made. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/05/24 Full Review Fabio R This film is absolutely devastating. A first-class masterpiece. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/11/24 Full Review julio w This man walks and walks until he forgets everything in real life to get rid of his despair and loneliness. Very touching film. The plot, visual, pace, dialog and acting are perfect. I'm speechless to describe how is this movie so great Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/11/24 Full Review Ben T The emperor has no clothes. How the hell did this get rated so high is beyond me. nothing happens for two and a half hours, absolutely nothing. I kept waiting for a great payoff I should have turned that movie off 10 hours ago. I will never get my time back. I swear this was some plot by all the elites. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/28/24 Full Review Audience Member Slow to watch, boring story, uninteresting cinematography.. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 09/21/24 Full Review Audience Member Based on the 93% rating, I just wasted 2.5 hrs of my life watching one of the worse and most boring movies I have ever seen. You ever watch a movie waiting for something to happen? About one hour into it, I said to my wife, "this is one of the most irritating movies that I have ever seen". She said wait, something will happen. Well, nothing ever happened. And I am really not sure what the point of the film was, nor do I care. Complete torture. The reviews are a joke. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/03/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A disheveled man who wanders out of the desert, Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) seems to have no idea who he is. When a stranger manages to contact his brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell), Travis is awkwardly reunited with his sibling. Travis has been missing for years, and his presence unsettles Walt and his family, which also includes Travis's own son, Hunter (Hunter Carson). Soon Travis must confront his wife, Jane (Nastassja Kinski), and try to put his life back together.
Director
Wim Wenders
Producer
Don Guest, Anatole Dauman
Screenwriter
L.M. Kit Carson, Sam Shepard
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
20th Century Fox
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 18, 1984, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 23, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$236.0K
Runtime
2h 25m
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