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May 25, 1969 |
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United Artists Films |
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113 min |
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Overwiew :A 'cowboy,' Joe Buck, moves to New York City from Texas to make his fortune as a hustler servicing rich Park Avenue women. Shortly after arriving, he is hustled by homeless con man Ratzo Rizzo, who had said he would manage him for a $20 fee. Bent on getting his money back, Buck finds the rapidly deteriorating Rizzo, ends up feeling sorry for him, and moving into Rizzo's room in an abandoned building to care for him. The two remain hopeful of striking it rich with Rizzo managing Buck's career, but it soon becomes obvious that they are no match for the urban jungle. |
Starring :
Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver
Directors :
John Schlesinger, Burtt Harris
Producers :
Jerome Hellman, Kenneth Utt, Jerome Hellman
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www.washingtonpost.com - : The only X-rated movie to win the Best Picture Oscar (the rating has since been commuted to an R), ''Midnight Cowboy'' is a brutal bummer about loneliness and destitution, a cinematically adroit ''Lower Depths,'' with a stubbled, greasy Dustin Hoffman shivering in his unheated, condemned New York tenement as unsuccessful stud Jon Voight lies depressed and unemployed on the room's single cot. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : How the mass audience is going to react to this United Artists release is anybody's guess, since it can honestly be said there's never been anything quite like it. ''Midnight Cowboy'' in DeLuxe Color graphically depicts the sordid world of New York's male prostitutes, a nightmare country of fading youth and bartered sex that is as harrowing as anything yet seen on theatre screens. At its core, however, it's also a compassionate, brutally touching love story about two men, both emotional cripples, who discover their real need for each other too late. Dustin Hoffman, almost unrecognizable as the sickly Ratso Rizzo, appears for the first time since ''The Graduate,'' and newcomer Jon Voight here makes what may well be the most impressive motion picture debut in history. Together they are sensational, with director John Schlesinger (''Darling'') capturing the horror and cruelty of the New York underground with a chilling exactness and evoking such outstanding performances from a large supporting cast that the film is bound to be the most discussed work of the year. So much of it is so good that space doesn't allow mention of all the talents involved, but ''Midnight Cowboy'' is quite a film and one that looms as an adult attraction of truly blockbuster proportions. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''Midnight Cowboy'' comes heartbreakingly close to being the movie we want it to be. The performances have a flat, painful accuracy. The world of Times Square, a world of people without hope and esteem, seems terribly real. Here is America's underbelly and it even smells that way. And seeing these things and reaching to them, we are ready to praise the movie where we found them. And cannot. more...
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