Storyline
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
Marco Perella, Frances McDormand, Gordon Tootoosis, Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, Kris Kristofferson, Chris Cooper, Vanessa Martinez, Miriam Colón, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Leo Burmester, Ron Canada, Clifton James, Stephen Mendillo, Chandra Wilson, Richard Coca, Stephen J. Lang, Oni Faida Lampley, Eleese Lester, Jeff Monahan, Eddie Robinson
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Reviews
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
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
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
The most enjoyable John Sayles movie in recent memory.
