Synopsis
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
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Cast
- Chris CooperSam Deeds
- Matthew McConaugheyBuddy Deeds
- Elizabeth PeñaPilar
- Kris KristoffersonCharlie Wade
- Joe MortonDel
- Frances McDormandBunny
- Stephen J. LangMikey
- Oni Faida LampleyCelie
- LaTanya Richardson JacksonPriscilla Worth
- Leo BurmesterCody
Recommendations
- 90
The A.V. Club
A strange and thoughtful story, told in unhurried conversations and artful flashbacks. The things people keep from themselves are just as important to this mystery as the things they keep from each other, and that transforms Lone Star from a mere mystery into something much richer. - 90
Los Angeles Times
Leisurely yet intense (Sayles does the editing himself), Lone Star reveals a director whose mastery does nothing but increase. Perhaps now his audience will as well. - 89
Austin Chronicle
The range of characters here is daringly broad, but Sayles is able to touch on the humanity of each (with considerable help from a gifted and eminently watchable cast), and the details of the region -- the heat, the beautiful but often unforgiving landscape, and especially the pride of the residents -- are vivid and true. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The biggest problem with Lone Star is that colorful Charley Wade isn't the center of the movie -- it's bland Sam Deeds. Cooper isn't a compelling enough movie star to carry us along some of the film's more languid twists and turns. - 80
Washington Post
The most enjoyable John Sayles movie in recent memory. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
By the end, it is clear just how much in control Sayles has been all along. The resolution, though typically restrained, forcefully puts over the movie's point, that we're all more connected than we think. - 75
San Francisco Examiner
While I was watching "Lone Star," I realized that what makes Sayles a good and socially responsible person - his ability to look at one thing a hundred different ways - is exactly what makes him a muddy filmmaker. - 63
USA Today
[A] socially conscious sprawler... Sayles' latest never bores during its 21/4-hour unreeling. But neither does it soar, despite finessing a complex flashback narrative set in 1957 and present-day. [21 June 1996, p.3D]
