The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

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High-stepping, fast-talking, side-cracking, rib-tickling musical-comedy with Burt Reynolds as the sheriff pressured to force the closing of the Chicken Ranch, a brothel headed by feisty madam Dolly Parton. Songs include "I Will Always Love You." Co-stars Charles Durning, Dom DeLuise, Jim Nabors, Robert Mandan, Noah Beery, Jr. 115 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: French, Spanish; "making of" documentary; outtakes; theatrical trailer.
This is an energetic, but ultimately mediocre adaptation of the play, directed on Broadway by Tommy Tune. Burt Reynolds is the town sheriff and a regular patron of a local bordello. He wages a public battle to keep it open after it is targeted as the devil's den by a television minister. Charles Durning was nominated for a Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and there are some lively song and dance numbers featuring Dolly Parton as the madame of the Chicken Ranch. However, this becomes bogged down in too many serious moments for it to be more than a lightweight musical comedy. --Rochelle O'Gorman