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Made in Texas Film Series...

Fandango
(1985, 91 min)
Writer/Director: Kevin Reynolds
Cast: Kevin Costner, Judd Nelson, Sam Robards, Glenne Headly, Chuck Bush 

Wednesday, May 13 | 7:30 pm
Texas Spirit Theater
1800 Congress Avenue | Austin, TX map
$5 for public, free for AFF and TSHM members

Writer/Director Kevin Reynolds in attendance!

Prior to the film screening, Kevin Reynolds will participate in an AFF Conversations in Film event at the AT&T Conference Center at 6 pm.  Click here for more information. 

Based on his undergraduate college days in Texas, Reynolds’ feature debut began as a student film he made while at USC called Proof and expanded into Fandango.  In the shadow of the Vietnam War, five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to their uncertain futures.  A group of buddies known as “The Groovers” decide to celebrate there last days before the draft by heading off on a “lost” road trip, intending to stop at a notorious roadhouse and dig up someone - or something - named "Dom" buried under a boulder on the shores of the Rio Grande.   

To view a trailer of Fandango, click here.  

Shot all over the state including Austin, Marfa, El Paso and Big Bend National Park. 

"Watching it today, you might dismiss the movie as filled with cliches, but cliches have to get started somewhere, and for my money Fandango is that start. Marvin J. McIntyre is the original hippie pilot/drug zombie. Clothes coming out instead of a parachute? Here's your original scene. While some of the film feels reminiscent of Animal House or Losin' It, that's a minor matter. Fandango is so much fun in its own right that you'll forget all those other movies." – Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com