"Lone Star"

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John Sayles' movie, "Lone Star" is about life in a sleepy Texas town. This paper discusses the genre of the movie, the style used and how the characters are excellently used to portray the life in a border town. It looks at corruption, tension and hostilities as a result of the location of the town.

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""Lone Star" is John Sayles' best movie yet, a richly textured, multi-racial, multi-generational examination of a Texas town. The writer/director Sayles brilliantly combines drama, romance, mystery, and social observation into a one third love story with a twisted one-third-murder mystery. Exploring the lives of half a dozen people in a Texas border town (i.e. border) Sayles ties them all together in his script with discovery of a skeleton in the desert that brings the skeleton out if every closet in the sleepy little berg. Two off-duty sergeants from an Army post near the town of Frontera find skeleton remains and a rusty Sheriff's badge. The current sheriff of Frontera Sam Deeds, son of late legendary lawman Buddy Deeds, begins an investigation. Sam quickly learns that the remains are those of the corrupt sheriff Charley Wade, his father reputed to have run out of town. Sam's relationship with his father was hostile and he went out of Frontera and came back only after his father's death. "

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