Tex

1982

Action / Drama

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 66% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 2736 2.7K

based on novel or book oklahoma coming of age tulsa, oklahoma teenager

Plot summary

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

Director

Tim Hunter Photo
Tim Hunter

Top cast

Jim Metzler Photo
Jim Metzler as Mason McCormick
Tom Virtue Photo
Tom Virtue as Bob Collins
Pamela Ludwig Photo
Pamela Ludwig as Connie
Emilio Estevez Photo
Emilio Estevez as Johnny Collins
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1 hr 43 min
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English 2.0
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1 hr 43 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 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.
Reviewed by Prismark10 5 / 10

Tex is stuck in a rut

I first came across writer SE Hinton's work when the great Francis Ford Coppola adapted two of her books and made contrasting films. The Outsiders and Rumblefish. Both were released in 1983 having been shot back to back and both featured Matt Dillon.A year earlier, Dillon starred as Tex, in this adaptation of a SE Hinton book made by Disney. It is not as memorable as the Coppola movies.It is one of these coming of age dramas filled with teenage angst and Matt Dillon gives an early brat pack performance. Someone should had told him back then to do some comedy.Tex is the younger of two brothers growing up on their own, the older brother cares for Tex. Their mother has died, their dad has walked out on them. Tex likes the sister of his best friend, their father does not like Tex hanging out with either of them.Tex and his brother get to be heroes when they apprehend a villain on the run who initially holds them hostage. Later Tex gets involved with a drug dealing friend.The film is a slice of life drama about young adults. It features some early brat packers, apart from Dillon it also has Emilio Estevez and Meg Tilly. It does feel a bit to contrived and cliched but also shows a direction that Disney were moving away from its family friendly roots.
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