Daring. Provocative. Shocking. Compelling. Nearly thirty years after its original release, "Midnight Cowboy is still heartbreaking - and timeless" (The New York Observer).
This Academy AwardŽ winner for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay, also boasts OscarŽ nominated performances by Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, neither of whom have "ever been better on the screen then they are here" (Chicago Tribune)! And with its controversial, unflinching look at the harsh realities of life on the streets, this transcendent, compassionate film masterpiece turns the tables on the typical Hollywood happy ending...and hits you right in the heart.
Joe Buck (Voight) a good-looking, naively charming Texas "cowboy" who's convinced that he's the salvation of many love-starved New York women, makes his way to the Big Apple to seek his fortune. Trouble is, his well-to-do clientele never materializes - and the only wealth he finds is in the friendship of Ratso Rizzo (Hoffman), a scrounging, sleazy, small-time con man with big dreams. Living on the tattered fringe of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond - one that transcends their broken dreams and get-rich-quick schemes and makes Midnight Cowboy "that rarest of things...every bit as moving now as it was when it was [first] released" (Premiere Magazine).
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