Pure Country

Dusty Chandler (Strait) is a super star in the country music world, but his shows have the style of a ’70s rock concert…

• Director:Christopher Cain
• Genre:Drama / Music / Romance
• Runtime:113 minutes

Cast

George Strait : Dusty Wyatt Chandler
Lesley Ann Warren : Lula Rogers
Isabel Glasser : Harley Tucker
Kyle Chandler : Buddy Jackson
John Doe : Earl Blackstock

Superstar Dusty Chandler (Strait) is tired of the smoke, the strobe lights and the overmiked sound of his arena spectaculars. He’s especially tired of the grind of life on the road, as dictated by his manager, Lula Rogers (Warren); with whom he has a history.

An argument between Lula and Dusty over the whole presentation results in a bitter argument between them. The following night, something snaps. “I’m just going to take a little walk,” Dusty says as he walks out of the empty concert hall. He hitches a ride with a truck driver back to Texas, and back home to his grandmother (who is presumed to have raised him after he visits his parents’ graves in a later scene), but not before shaving his beard stubble and cutting his ponytail-bound hair short in an effort to avoid being recognized. He successfully tests this theory when he walks into a coffee shop across from the barbershop and the waitress fails to recognize him.

Dusty then returns to the family farm to visit his Grandma Ivy (Molly McClure), who welcomes the visit by noticing that her grandson has showed up without his usual entourage. Dusty’s suspicions of his show being too much are confirmed when Grandma Ivy shares his sentiments by saying she couldn’t hear him sing over all the distractions when she caught his show in Dallas. After his visit, he collects his old Dove guitar and leaves for a nearby cemetery, visiting the grave of his parents, presumed to have died as the death year for both parents reads 1970 on the tombstone.

After the cemetery, Dusty returns to an old honky-tonk bar, where he and his drummer Earl Blackstock (John Doe) performed before hitting the big-time. Forgetting he has a concert to give in Shreveport, Louisiana that evening, Dusty decides to stay and experiece some of the nightlife line dancing. While there, he becomes enamoured with a woman (Glasser) on the dance floor, as does another cowboy named Al (Mark Walters).

Dusty gets out of his chair and tries to approach Harley, but falls down, having had too much to drink. He stumbles outside in the middle of a heated argument between Harley and Al. Dusty is floored by one of Al’s punches after trying to get him to leave her alone. Al, however, receives comeuppance when Harley slams his hand in the door of her truck as he tries to stop her from leaving. She opens the door to release his hand and it strikes and breaks his nose. Read more

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