Love in Texan
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German title | Love in Texan |
Original title | Baja Oklahoma |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1988 |
length | 105 minutes |
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Director | Bobby Roth |
script | Bobby Roth, Dan Jenkins |
music | Stanley Myers |
camera | Michael Ballhaus |
cut | Kathe Klopp |
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Love at Texan is a TV movie from the year 1988 . It was produced for Home Box Office and first broadcast on February 20, 1988. The director was Bobby Roth , in the leading roles played Lesley Ann Warren and Carmen Argenziano .
The writer wrote Bobby Roth based on a novel by Dan Jenkins from the year 1983. The film is set in the 1950s in a bar in Fort Worth in Texas . Barwoman Juanita Hutchins (Lesley Ann Warren) wants to make a career as a singer. She falls in love several times and is always disappointed, which thwarts her plans.
Some Country hitmakers like Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson give Cameo -Auftritte.
Reviews
The film got rather positive reviews. Leonard Maltin described it in TV Movies and Video Guide as a living adaptation of the novel.
Awards
Swoosie Kurtz was nominated for the Golden Globe Award in the Best Supporting Role category. She was also nominated for The Annual National CableACE Award , as was Lesley Ann Warren .
literature
- Meinolf Zurhorst : Julia Roberts. "Pretty Woman" . Heyne Filmbibliothek Volume 168. (3rd edition.) Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-05757-0 , p. 36, 169-170
Web links
- Love at Texan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The New York Times: "Baja Oklahoma"