#1 – Horseman, Pass By
Teenager Lonnie Bannon lives on his grandfather Homer’s cattle ranch outside Thalia and watches a conflict grow between the old rancher and Lonnie’s ruthless step-uncle Hud. A livestock disease places the herd and the family’s livelihood at risk. Hud treats the crisis as an opportunity to…
#2 – Leaving Cheyenne
Rancher Gideon Fry, cowboy Johnny McCloud and Molly Taylor describe the same lifelong relationship from three different perspectives. Their affection, jealousy and reluctance to make final choices bind them together across decades in rural north Texas. Each narrator interprets the others imperfectly, so the history of…
#3 – The Last Picture Show
In the early 1950s, high-school seniors Sonny Crawford and Duane Moore approach graduation in the declining north Texas town of Thalia. Their friendship is tested by their relationships with Jacy Farrow and by their uneasy entry into the compromised adult world around them. Pool-hall owner Sam…
#4 – Texasville
During the 1980s oil bust, Duane Moore faces enormous debt while Thalia prepares an elaborate centennial celebration. His marriage to Karla is strained, his children create new crises and the businesses that once seemed permanent no longer provide security. Jacy Farrow returns to town, and Sonny…
#5 – Duane’s Depressed
At sixty-two, Duane Moore abandons his pickup, distances himself from the oil business and begins walking the roads around Thalia. He moves into a simple cabin and attempts to live outside the routines through which work, marriage and family have previously defined him. Therapy with Honor…
#6 – When the Light Goes
Duane returns from a journey to Egypt and finds that Thalia no longer provides the familiarity he expected. His wife is dead, his children have taken control of parts of the family business and his own health makes independence increasingly uncertain. He divides his attention between…
#7 – Rhino Ranch
After a serious heart attack, Duane Moore returns to a Thalia that has continued changing without him. His new neighbour, the billionaire K. K. Slater, has converted former ranchland into a reserve for endangered black rhinoceroses. The improbable preserve gives Duane another perspective on survival, extinction…