Paris, Texas

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Genre : Drama

Runtime : 145 mins

Release Date : 1984-07-16

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Harry Dean Stanton is on cracking form here the amnesiac "Travis". He turns up in a Texan clinic dressed in a striped suit, but recalling little for the slightly roguish doctor who helps him after some dehydrating time in the desert to use to help identify him. A tiny scrap of paper in his wallet e...

**A film full of qualities, but which will not please the general public.** There are films that are made for commercial audiences and others that are clearly made to please specialized critics and film theorists. Although this film was present on the commercial circuit, the truth is that Wim We...

I discovered Paris, Texas through Letterboxd's Top 250 Films with Most Fans, having never heard of it before. The 8.1 IMDB rating caught my attention, so I decided to give this acclaimed film a shot. What Worked The film starts genuinely intriguing. Travis's complete silence in the opening ac...

**_Artsy but tedious road flick in the Southwest_** Written by Sam Shepard and shot in late 1983, this meshes elements of Coppola’s “The Rain People” with Paul Schrader’s “Hardcore” and a little “The Last Picture Show.” While it generally failed at the box office, it has since garnered an impres...

Cast

Harry Dean Stanton

(Travis)

Nastassja Kinski

(Jane)

Dean Stockwell

(Walt)

Hunter Carson

(Hunter)

Aurore Clément

(Anne)

Bernhard Wicki

(Doctor Ulmer)

Sam Berry

(Gas Station Attendant)

Claresie Mobley

(Car Rental Clerk)

Viva

(Woman on TV)

Socorro Valdez

(Carmelita)

Edward Fayton

(Hunter's Friend)

Justin Hogg

(Hunter (Age 3))

Tom Farrell

(Screaming Man)

John Lurie

('Slater')

Jeni Vici

('Stretch')

Sally Norvell

('Nurse Bibs')

Sharon Menzel

(Comedienne)