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The Whole Shootin' Match
The Whole Shootin' Match
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THE WHOLE SHOOTIN' MATCH

Directed by Eagle Pennell
United States, 1978
Comedy, Drama, Western

Synopsis

Longtime friends Frank and Lloyd try their luck at get-rich-quick schemes while negotiating the daily indignities of being seen by everyone else—including, occasionally, Frank’s long-suffering wife–as the local losers.

Synopsis

Longtime friends Frank and Lloyd try their luck at get-rich-quick schemes while negotiating the daily indignities of being seen by everyone else—including, occasionally, Frank’s long-suffering wife–as the local losers.

Our take

Shot on 16mm in Austin, Texas, The Whole Shootin’ Match anticipated an entire wave of American independent cinema in its unique sense of aesthetic and narrative freedom—a freedom which prompted Robert Redford to start the Sundance Film Festival. Today, it is a rapturous rediscovery.