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| Title | Midnight cowboy | Year | 1969 | ||||
| Director | John Schlesinger | Writer | James Leo Herlihy Waldo Salt |
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| Country | USA | Language | English | ||||
| Cast | Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, Ruth White, Jennifer Salt, Gilman Rankin, Gary Owens, T. Tom Marlow, George Eppersen, Al Scott, Linda Davis, J.T. Masters | ||||||
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Joe Buck (Jon 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).
Daring. Provocative. Shocking. Compelling. Nearly thirty years after its original release, "Midnight Cowboy is still heartbreaking - and timeless" (The New York Observer).
This Academy Award® winner for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay, also boasts Oscar® 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.
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This is one of the most emotional gay relationship movies ever made. The two main characters go through life on the bad side of society with only each others love and support to keep them going. |
A very good and emotional movie. Especially when you consider the period (1969) it was made in.
It received an X-rating when it came out because of the gay interest but later on when the hard-core porn was more associated with X-rating it received an R-rating without changing anything.
The only "X" rated film to win an Academy Award for best picture.
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Joe Buck: I only get carsick on boats.
Shirley: You fell. Hey fella, you fell.
Ratso Rizzo: You know, in my own place, my name ain't Ratso. I mean, it just so happens that in my own place my name is Enrico Salvatore Rizzo
Towny: Oh, Joe it's... it's so difficult, I-- You're a nice person, Joe, I- I- I should never have asked you up here, you're... You're a lovely person, really. Oh, God, I loathe life, I loathe it! Please go, please.
Gretel McAlbertson: Why are you stealing food?
Joe Buck: I like the way I look. Makes me feel good, it does. And women like me, goddammit. Hell, the only one thing I ever been good for is lovin'. Women go crazy for me, that's a really true fact! Ratso, hell! Crazy Annie they had to send her away!
[At the gravesite of his father]
Ratso Rizzo: You want the word on that brother-and-sister act, Hansel's a fag and Gretel's got the hots for herself, so who cares, right? Load up on the salami.
Ratso Rizzo: Here I am, goin' to Florida, my leg hurts, my butt hurts, my chest hurts, my face hurts, and like that ain't enough, I gotta pee all over myself.
Ratso Rizzo: Excuse my vulgarity.
Ratso Rizzo: Frankly, you're beginning to smell and for a stud in New York, that's a handicap.
Joe Buck: Uh, well, sir, I ain't a f'real cowboy. But I am one helluva stud!
Joe Buck: It just ain't right cheatin' from a pregnant lady.
Joe Buck: John Wayne! Are you tryin' to tell me he's a fag?
Cass: You were gonna ask me for money? Who the hell do you think you're dealing with, some old slut on 42nd Street? In case you didn't happen to notice it, ya big Texas longhorn bull, I'm one helluva gorgeous chick!
Ratso Rizzo: I'm walking here! I'm walking here!
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