Sonny and Charlene then take their turn in the pickup, but the frustrated Sonny, longing to do more than fondle Charlene's breasts, ends their stale relationship when she becomes petulant. Charlene complains that Sonny has forgotten their one year anniversary, but Sonny is more interested in watching Jacy, the most beautiful and wealthy girl in town, as she and Duane come into the theater and begin to kiss. Sonny goes to work and that night, while Duane and his girl friend, Jacy Farrow, take the first turn in the pickup, Sonny joins his girl, Charlene Duggs, in the theater. Sonny and Duane have breakfast at the café, run by salty-tongued waitress Genevieve, and discuss their usual Saturday night plans of seeing the "picture show" and necking with their girl friends in the pickup they jointly own. Sonny relaxes with his friends, Sam the Lion, the aging but still vital cowboy who owns the small town's café, pool hall and movie theater, and Sam's ward, the mute, gentle Billy. So, as Sam the Lion's death finally marks the end of his youthful innocence, Sonny turns to Ruth for comfort.One morning in November 1951, Sonny Crawford and Duane Jackson, co-captains of the dismal high school football team in Anarene, TX, shrug off insults about the team's last game of the season. For Sonny, he has stumbled into an unexpected, and mutually rewarding, affair with Ruth Popper (Cloris Leachman), the middle-aged wife of the high school football coach. But when the marriage goes unconsummated and Jacy is dragged by home by her angry father, her mother, Lois Farrow (Ellen Burstyn), is left to explain things to Sonny. Unsuccessful in her effort to land a wealthy college man for her boyfriend, Jacy comes back home where, in Duane's absence, she and Sonny agree to get married and elope. With nothing left for him in town, Duane enlists to go to war in Korea, but not before working off his frustrations in a fight that costs his good friend Sonny his sight in one eye. After Jacy (Cybill Shepherd), prettiest girl in their senior class, shares an awkward motel room tryst with Duane, she drops him for an older, and wealthier, college boy.
Growing up in 1951 in the small Texas town of Anarene, Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and his best friend Duane (Jeff Bridges) respect and admire Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson), the ex-cowboy who owns the town's movie house, cafe and pool hall.
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