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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''Drugstore Cowboy'' is one of the best films in the long tradition of American outlaw road movies - a tradition that includes ''Bonnie and Clyde,'' ''Easy Rider,'' ''Midnight Cowboy'' and ''Badlands.'' It is about criminals who do not intend to be particularly bad people, but whose lives run away with them. The heroes of these films always have a weakness, and in ''Drugstore Cowboy'' the weakness is drug abuse. more...
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www.rollingstone.com - : Casting teen dream Matt Dillon as a junkie going straight sounds like one of those noxious notions dreamed up by a politician for yet another Just Say No campaign. Admirable causes usually make for deadly moviemaking. The film's beginning suggests this is no exception. Dillon's Bob Hughes, shot by a kid pusher, is near death. Bob narrates the story in a long flashback, waxing poetic about his days of robbing drugstores for a fix. Hearing Dillon's thick tongue trip over such twisters as ''the rosy hue of unlimited success'' filled me with dread. Later, director Gus Van Sant, who did the fine independent film Mala Noche, attempts to visualize a drug-induced fantasy by showing falling snowflakes and flying hats. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : ''Drugstore Cowboy'' is about copping -- and keeping -- a dangerous buzz, whether it's morphine sulphate, crystal meth or Dilaudid. But if you think this '70s allegory about pharmacy-raiding junkies isn't for you, you must have overlooked your own habit: Those daily, frenetic things you ''have to'' do, that banal maintenance of your own euphoria. more...
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