In tiny Anarene, Texas, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how - with basketball, girls and hanging out in the town’s movie house. Jacy is Duane's steady, desired by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her momma’s good looking. The general consensus is that whoever wins Jacy's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death. Folks are heading for the big cities to make a better living and raise their kids. Sonny and Duane are torn between a bright future, somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit old movie house, the legacy of their long time friend and mentor, Sam the Lion.

It holds a special significance to Derrick as he explains:

“I chose Bogdanovitch’s gentle study of small town America because it uses the closure of a cinema as the signifier of the loss of a whole way of life. It was made in 1971. A decade later Watershed opened its doors and I like the idea that cinema still helps to define and shape communities.”

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