Urban Cowboy

A city boy wanders into a honky-tonk and thinks he’s found his inner wild man. He marries a rodeo rider who insists on sharing the saddle, which he handles about as well as a bull handles a lasso. The only thing more predictable than a mechanical bull is the way he eventually rides it back into her good graces.

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James Bridges directed Urban Cowboy in 1980. See James Bridges's full filmography, where to start with James Bridges, or where to go after you've seen everything by James Bridges.

Urban Cowboy was released in 1980 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 132 minutes.