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Honkytonk Man

1982

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Alexa Kenin ...

6.9

2,935

Drama. Comedy Red Stovall (Clint Eastwood) is a Depression-era rascal whose fire-in-the-belly passion comes from the whiskey he slugs and the dream he chases: singing at the Grand Ole Opry. He takes off on a drive from Oklahoma to audition in Nashville with Nephew Whit (Clint’s son Kyle Eastwood) along to help keep the car on the road and Red on the straight and narrow.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is a sweet, whimsical, low-key movie, a movie that makes you feel good without pressing you too hard (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Derek Adams Time Out	"One of the most oddball and heroically unfashionable superstar vehicles ever contrived (...) The whole thing veers wildly in quality"	NEU
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"One of the earlier films directed by Eastwood to reveal the unmistakable disparity between the silent assassin persona audiences had come to embrace in him and the much gentler humanist behind the camera (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"The film comes across sympathetically but unconvincingly, as an attempt by a well-established movie tough guy to reveal his tender side."	NEU
United States	Time	"It is a guileless tribute not only to plain values of plain people in Depression America, but also to the sweet spirit of country-and-western music before it got all duded up for the urban cowboys."	POS

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