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- 1980
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 12 m
- 1980
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 12 m
Summary Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.
Directed By: James Bridges
Written By: Aaron Latham, James Bridges
- 1980
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 12 m
- 1980
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 12 m
Urban Cowboy
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6.6
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Summary Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.
Directed By: James Bridges
Written By: Aaron Latham, James Bridges
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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50% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
61
50% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
50% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
James Bridges's film, which he co-authored with Aaron Latham, has a mood and rhythm of its own -- it's in no hurry to knock your socks off. You have to get to know the characters, just as it takes time for them to get to know each other. Then suddenly, when Bud and Sissy's premature marriage starts to fall apart, you find that you care, and the spell is cast. Bridges shows an extraordinary gift for directing actors, and he gets a string of marvelous, fresh performances. [09 June 1980, p.84]
John Travolta stars as a Texas construction worker who spends his nights chasing a woman and the cowboy myth in a huge honky-tonk bar. Debra Winger is a standout as the object of Travolta's anger and affections. [11 July 1980, p.8]
Only a couple years removed from his screen super-success in Saturday Night Fever, Travolta struts his way through Urban Cowboy’s modern-West parable about machismo, cowboy manqué, and mechanical bulls. Travolta captures some of the confusion of a little big man on the new prairie, Debra Winger provides a vixenish challenge to his manhood, and Scott Glenn plays the guy in the figurative black cowboy hat.
The picture is scrappily edited, and the director seems willing to do almost anything for an immediate effect. It's only in the best scenes that satire and sultriness work together.
It's a little like watching Hsing-hsing and Ling-ling attempting to mate, to see John Travolta and Debra Winger, as the simple couple in Urban Cowboy, spend over two hours trying to find a modus vivendi in a mobile home. They're sweet and it's amusing that they have so much trouble doing the obvious, but after a while you get exasperated and wish they would just figure it out and do it.
By Judith Martin FULL REVIEW
Unapologetically trashy, Urban Cowboy is a virtual pageant of high redneck style—there are lots of bootleg trousers, halter tops, shag haircuts, and feather-brimmed Stetsons—and Winger is fun as the unapologetically trashy gal who just wants to bag herself a real cowboy. Unfortunately, Urban Cowboy is dull one time too often to qualify as entertaining kitsch.
By Maria Schneider FULL REVIEW
An absurdly upbeat romantic vehicle for John Travolta. The film-makers appear to believe that the moviegoing public craves a reassuring love story, at any cost. This film ends up as s counterfeit endorsement of the so-called simpler so-called values.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
6.6
36% Positive
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64% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Nomination
Grammy Awards
• 1 Nomination
