Midnight Cowboy
by John Schlesinger
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Actor: Brenda Vaccaro, Dustin Hoffman, John McGiver, Jon Voight, Sylvia MilesDirector: John Schlesinger
Brand: MIDNIGHT COWBOY ()
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-01-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Midnight Cowboy
Movie Review: Not as bad as you might expect
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Summary of Midnight Cowboy
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 EmersonA "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 Rizzos room in an abandoned building to care for him. The two remain hopeful of striking it rich with Rizzo managing Bucks career but it soon becomes obvious that they are no matches for the urban jungle.Starring: Dustin Hoffman Jon Voight Sylvia Miles and Brenda VacarroDirector: John SchlesingerProduced by Jerome Hellman; written by Waldo Salt; running time of 113 minutes; Closed Captioned. Copyright: 1969 MGM/UASystem Requirements:Full length Feature in both Pan & Scan and 1.85:1 LetterBox Formats Languages: English and French Subtitles: English French and Spanish English French and Spanish captioning for the Hearing Impaired Chapter Search Original Theatrical Trailer Dolby Digital Two Channel Interactive Film Trivia Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio Standard 1.33:1 (4.3) Track Info: English: Dolby Digital Surround French: Dolby Digital Surround Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 027616603890
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