Tex 1982 123movies

Watch: Tex 1982 123movies, Full Movie Online – After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own..
Plot: Coming-of-age story about two teenage brothers in rural Oklahoma and their struggle to grow up on their own, after their mother dies and their father leaves them.
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Ratings:

	6.4/10 Votes: 2,297
	85% | RottenTomatoes
	78/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 38 Popularity: 4.055 | TMDB

Reviews:

Tex is stuck in a rut
I first came across writer SE Hinton’s work when the great Francis Ford Coppola adapted two of her books and made contrasting films. The Outsiders and Rumblefish. Both were released in 1983 having been shot back to back and both featured Matt Dillon.

A year earlier, Dillon starred as Tex, in this adaptation of a SE Hinton book made by Disney. It is not as memorable as the Coppola movies.

It is one of these coming of age dramas filled with teenage angst and Matt Dillon gives an early brat pack performance. Someone should had told him back then to do some comedy.

Tex is the younger of two brothers growing up on their own, the older brother cares for Tex. Their mother has died, their dad has walked out on them. Tex likes the sister of his best friend, their father does not like Tex hanging out with either of them.

Tex and his brother get to be heroes when they apprehend a villain on the run who initially holds them hostage. Later Tex gets involved with a drug dealing friend.

The film is a slice of life drama about young adults. It features some early brat packers, apart from Dillon it also has Emilio Estevez and Meg Tilly. It does feel a bit to contrived and cliched but also shows a direction that Disney were moving away from its family friendly roots.

brat without a purpose
Tex McCormick (Matt Dillon) is a young delinquent living in the farming town of Bixby, Oklahoma with his older brother Mason. Mason is a basketball player who is looking for a scholarship in Indiana. They are struggling to pay the bills with their absentee father on the rodeo circuit. Mason is forced to sell Tex’s horse. Tex is angry. His best friend is Johnny Collins (Emilio Estevez) and he likes Johnny’s sister Jamie (Meg Tilly). Their father Cole Collins (Ben Johnson) tries to keep Tex from his kids. Tex and Mason picks up a hitchhiker but he turns out to be a violent fugitive. Mason deliberately crashes the truck and the fugitive is killed in a shootout. The brothers become media heroes and their father returns. A family revelation sends Tex over the edge.

Matt Dillon is playing Tex as an idiotic bratty teen. I don’t remember much from the book since I read it some 30 years ago. There has to be a more appealing way to portray the character. Also the story is an overloaded melodrama. It may work in a book but it’s problematic when a violent shootout is nothing more than a pit stop. It’s a bit too overwrought.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Drama
Director Tim Hunter
Writer S.E. Hinton, Charles S. Haas, Tim Hunter
Actors Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly
Country United States
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Stereo (RCA Photophone Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory Technicolor, USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm