Don't Come Knocking (2005)
Directed by Wim Wenders
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...
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Wim Wenders re-teams with his Paris, Texas (1984) co-author Sam Shepard for this new road movie.
There are heavy echoes of Paris, Texas (also written by Shepard), although this isn't nearly as focussed.
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Wim Wenders, Wim Wenders: This is from the director who made Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire and the stunningly odd five-hour masterpiece Until the End of the World.
In any case, the gentlest of German New Wavers has in Don't Come Knocking plunked fellow menopausal wanderer Sam Shepard back in the saddle and out in the wide open spaces again, more than two decades after Paris, Texas, for another bout of soul-searching amid jukeboxes and roadside barrooms.
It is here that Robert Ford attempts to join the gang, boasting his worth to Jesse's older brother Frank (Sam Shepard, "Don't Come Knocking"), who will have none of it.