Tex

1982
PG
1h 43m

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After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.

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6.4/10

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Awards
- 3 nominations total

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Trivia
When writer of the original novel S.E. Hinton met Matt Dillon (Tex) for the first time, he said in his thick New York accent, "Yo, S.E., I thought you was a man!" Hinton recalls initially being nervous about a city kid playing the character of a country cowboy. Now, Hinton states that she believes this was one of Dillon's best performances. Dillon went on to star in two more film adaptions of Hinton's novels, The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983).

Goofs
When Tex and Mason run the truck into the ditch with the hitch hiker the passenger side window that should be up is down, then up, then down again. When the driver's side window is shot out by the police, you can see a second pane of glass with a bullet hole behind the shattered glass.

Quotes
Fortune Teller: You may think of one yes or no question to yourself.
Tex McCormick: [He sees a horse pass by and thinks about Rowdy] Yeah, Ok.
Fortune Teller: I am sorry the answer is no.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Teenage Sex Movies (1983)

Soundtracks
The Godfather (Main Theme)
(uncredited)
Written by Nino Rota

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7/10

Matt Dillon's cinematic S.E. Hinton trilogy begins

I would rank "Tex" as the second best of the S.E. Hinton adaptations starring Matt Dillon (happy birthday, Matt!) behind "The Outsiders"; "Rumble Fish" was too weird to make any sense. This one casts him a young man trying to make his way in Oklahoma after his mother dies. Although its status as a Disney movie gives it kind of a strange feeling, it still comes out very well, with good performances by pretty much all the cast members. But I will say that he reached his apex with "The Outsiders". In all these movies, he was showing the sort of talent that eventually earned him an Oscar nomination for "Crash". Worth seeing. Also starring Meg Tilly, Frances Lee McCain (the "Gremlins" mom), Ben Johnson, Emilio Estevez and Zeljko Ivanek.