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Midnight Cowboy
A Texas dishwasher, Joe Buck leaves hometown and his career to head towards New York , where he thinks he can make a fortune and live better life than Texas to see the bitter reality there, and finds himself living in disused building with a Dickensian named Ratso to labor together in Joe's hustling job, and then, the health of Ratso becomes worse.
4 September 1944, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 October 1941, Brooklyn, New York, USA
23 February 1938, New York City, New York, USA
31 January 1930, Durham, England, UK
23 February 1913, Plattsburgh, New York, USA
12 April 1935, Bell, California, USA
18 November 1939, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
6 September 1935, Grenoble, France
23 September 1939, USA
16 August 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 August 1926, Decorah, Iowa, USA
20 February 1946, Henderson, Texas, USA
15 September 1892, New York, USA
29 August 1922, Staten Island, New York, USA
16 July 1935, Messina, Sicily, Italy
1950, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
23 August 1938, Syracuse, New York, USA
January 13, 2014
[A] tawdry, strident yet deeply affecting tale.
February 12, 2013
The attempt to wring tender laughter from such a topic strikes me as being itself a kind of commercialized vice.
September 07, 2011
Midnight Cowboy's peep-show vision of Manhattan lowlife may no longer be shocking, but what is shocking, in 1994, is to see a major studio film linger this lovingly on characters who have nothing to offer the audience but their own lost souls.
January 13, 2014
We can identify with them without false sentimentality and it is impossible not to do so.
December 09, 2011
"Midnight Cowboy" is an exquisite time capsule. The film is filled with dark social and political commentary. Only through his problematic friendship with Ratzo can Buck reclaim his humanity.
February 23, 2015
Even with every foot of grim realism and some humor, Midnight Cowboy is rather a sad picture.
February 12, 2013
Strip away everything else and it's the performances that make Midnight Cowboy what it is.
July 01, 2014
Classic Oscar winner has explicit material, mature themes.
February 23, 2015
No amount of obfuscation can obscure the film's vaulting performances.
February 22, 2016
Some of the attitudes in Midnight Cowboy -- especially toward women -- don't wear the years well, but the performances by Hoffman and Jon Voight remain electric.
September 02, 2014
Midnight Cowboy moves beyond realism into an archetypal tale of the Big City destroying dreamers. Joe and Ratso, like Of Mice and Men's George and Lenny, are quintessential failed, lower-class, buddy-dreamers.