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Red Bovie (Robert Duvall) is a cranky old curmudgeon, long estranged from his son. He is being forced out of his home by a developer who is going to create ranchettes on the old family ranch in Texas. Red is bitter, rude, and irascible. If he wasn t played by Robert Duvall, you wouldn t want to spend any time in his presence whatsoever. Even still, A Night in Old Mexico, directed by Emilio Aragon and written by Lonesome Dove writer Bill Wittliff, is pretty tough going. Duvall is one of our finest actors and he dominates the screen, even in the simplest moments: the small laughs to himself, the murmured asides, the squinting of his eyes as he assesses a situation. He s riveting. But to what purpose? The film is cliched and phony, the coincidences beggar belief, and the human relationships come from a very tired playbook. Duvall can justify it all, he s just that kind of actor, but A Night in Old Mexico hasn t worked hard enough to give him a story worthy of