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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: December 15, 1982 |
Starring:
Alexa Kenin, Barry Corbin, Clint Eastwood, Jerry Hardin, John McIntire, Kyle Eastwood, Macon McCalman, Matt Clark, Tim Thomerson, Verna Bloom
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It's a pleasant, unprepossessing picture of gliding charm and buoyant silliness, a fragile craft unencumbered by the
weighty sophistication of camp, and it's one of the nicest surprises of the season. [17 Dec 1982]
A more modest, down-to-earth disappointment than Firefox, it benefits from a fair amount of incidental entertainment value, much of it supplied by a distinctive and often humorous supporting cast. [18 Dec 1982, p.C4]
Honkytonk Man is one of those well-intentioned efforts that doesn't quite work. It seems that Clint Eastwood took great pains in telling this story of an aging, struggling country singer but he is done in by the predictability of the script [from Clancy Carlile's own novel] and his own limitations as a warbler.
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Honkytonk Man is Clint Eastwood's long, long ramble through the American Southwest in search of period, in search of character, in search of self-control. As a director, at least, he never finds the latter -- among the many things wrong with his latest film is that he apparently could not bring himself to slice away any of the flab. [22 Dec 1982, p.D18]
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