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| Midnight Cowboy
(1969) |
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113 minutes
Rated: X
Country: US
Studio: MGM
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon
Voight, Brenda Vacarro, Sylvia
Miles, John McGiver, Bob Balaban,
Barnard Hughes
Director: John Schlesinger
Screenwriter: Waldo Salt |
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Synopsis |
Joe Buck (Jon Voight), an aspiring
male prostitute from Texas, heads to
Manhattan where he hopes to find
plenty of wealthy women willing to
pay for the services of a handsome
man. When he arrives, the naive
country boy befriends Ratso Rizzo
(Dustin Hoffman), a tubercular
homeless con artist who dreams of
moving to Florida. As they go about
trying to get the money Ratso needs,
the two men confront the seediness,
corruption, and cruelty that
flourish in the big city.
Based on the novel by James Leo
Herlihy, this Oscar-winning film
(Best Picture, Best Director, and
Best Adapted Screenplay) features
brilliant performances by Voight and
Hoffman, and brings to the screen an
unusually gritty realism in its
portrayal of the streets of New York
City.
Given an "X" rating (which has been
replaced with "NC-17") at the time,
today the film would probably
receive an "R". |
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