''Baja Oklahoma'' is a 1988 American

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by HBO Original Film starring

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. Written by director

Bobby Roth Robert Jay Roth (born 1950) is an American television and film director, screenwriter and producer. Life and career Born and raised in Los Angeles, Roth began his tertiary education at the University of California, Berkeley studying philoso ...

and novelist

Dan Jenkins Daniel Thomas Jenkins (December 2, 1928 – March 7, 2019) was an American author and sportswriter who often wrote for ''Sports Illustrated''. He was also a high-standard amateur golfer who played college golf at Texas Christian University. Ear ...

, based on Jenkins's 1982 novel with the same title, it also stars

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, and

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. The title song was written by Jenkins and

Willie Nelson Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American country musician. The critical success of the album '' Shotgun Willie'' (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of '' Red Headed Stranger'' (1975) and '' Stardust'' (1 ...

, who appears as himself near the end of the film to sing it with Warren.

Plot

Juanita Hutchins has dreams of becoming a country-western music songwriter, but she works at a bar in the meantime.

Cast

Other

"Baja Oklahoma" is a nickname for

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

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1988 television films 1988 films 1980s English-language films Films directed by Bobby Roth Films scored by Stanley Myers Films set in Texas Films based on American novels HBO Films films Country music films {{US-tv-film-stub