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Midnight Cowboy

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Midnight Cowboy
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R,1hr 53min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
May 25, 1969
Director:
John Schlesinger
Distributor:
United Artists
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles  ...more
Synopsis: Based on a James Leo Herlihy novel, British director John Schlesinger's first American film dramatized the small hopes, dashed dreams, and unlikely friendship of two late '60s lost souls. Dreaming of an easy life as a fantasy cowboy stud, cheerful Texas rube Joe Buck (Jon Voight) heads to New York City to be a gigolo, but he quickly discovers that hustling isn't what he thought it would be after he winds up paying his first trick (Sylvia Miles). He gets swindled by gimpy tubercular grifter Rico "Ratso" ... Full Synopsis
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Rebecca Flint Marx, AMG Review
After earning notoriety as one of the first major studio films to be given an X rating, Midnight Cowboy made history as the first X-rated film to win an Oscar for Best Picture. A brutal depiction of broken dreams and lives asunder in the fetid backwash of the swinging Sixties, Cowboy shocked audiences with its squalid subject matter and signaled a trend towards films that explored lurid and personal ... Full Review
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Dustin Hoffman
Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo
Jon Voight
Joe Buck
Sylvia Miles
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John McGiver
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