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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Letterboxed • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1969 DVD Release : 01 January, 2000 |
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Midnight Cowboy description The first, and only, X-rated film to win a best picture Academy Award, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy seems a lot less daring today (and has been reclassified as an R), but remains a fascinating time capsule of late-1960s sexual decadence in mainstream American cinema. In a career-making performance, Jon Voight plays Joe Buck, a naive Texas dishwasher who goes to the big city (New York) to make his fortune as a sexual hustler. Although enthusiastic about selling himself to rich ladies for stud services, he quickly finds it hard to make a living and eventually crashes in a seedy dump with a crippled petty thief named Ratzo Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman, doing one of his more effective "stupid acting tricks," with a limp and a high-pitch rasp of a voice). Schlesinger's quick-cut, semi-psychedelic style has dated severely, as has his ruthlessly cynical approach to almost everybody but the lead characters. But at its heart the movie is a sad tale of friendship between a couple of losers lost in the big city, and with an ending no studio would approve today. It's a bit like an urban Of Mice and Men, but where both guys are Lenny. --Jim Emerson |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Not as bad as you might expect |
| Sure, it's dated. I guess it was pioneering in its time. But still a fine character study and a brilliant performance by Dustin Hoffman as Ratso. Slow getting started, perhaps because the humor has been done many times since this movie was made, but I didn't mind. It's fun to see the seventies captured so accurately if you were actually alive to see them the first time around. | |
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