An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family.An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family.An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 wins & 5 nominations total
Richard Andrew Jones
- Alvin Lawdermilk
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- TriviaMatt Damon said that in 1995, he was paid $20,000 to be in Tommy Lee Jones' film The Good Old Boys. He was able to hang out with Jones all summer and the money kept Damon and Ben Affleck free from having to take other jobs so that they could write Good Will Hunting (1997).
- GoofsAlmost all of the costumes are obviously brand-new, with no attempt to age them. This is particularly noticeable in the first scene, with the close-up shot of the chaps, which had supposedly had at least two years' use.
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Hewey Calloway: Tommy, I ain't never been killed in my life.
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I just wanted mainly to comment on another reviewer's review, in which he thought the ending was unrealistic. It just happens that the author, Elmer Kelton, grew up on West Texas ranches and probably knows at least as many cowboys as that reviewer and is a well respected Western author. I would like to see more of his books made into movies. I was working in the Ft. Davis area during the summer the movie was being made there. Tommy Lee Jones is also a West Texan and seems to know how to portray them well on screen. My favorite scene is when Hewey Callaway and his friend rope the old car at the rodeo in San Angelo. Also a very funny one is the one where Hewey shakes the dog urine off a weed onto the pants leg of the Fat banker, resulting in the dog urinating on his leg.
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