Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector's Edition)

Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector's Edition)
by John Schlesinger

Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector's Edition)
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Actor: Brenda Vaccaro, Dustin Hoffman, John McGiver, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles
Director: John Schlesinger
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Italian (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

Movie Reviews of Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector's Edition)

Movie Review: midnight cowboy
Summary: 5 Stars

I think the movie is great. I have viewed it several time over the years. I was living in Big Spring, TX during the time this film was made. I worked at the Ramada Inn coffee shop where the Producer, Director, Jon Voight, and Ruth White, and members of the production crew stayed ,during the filming of the part in Texas. I had never heard of Jon Voight. Little did I know at that time that he would become a great movie actor. As a waitress at the coffee shop, I served Jon Voight, but I didn't even get an autograph,let alone a picture with him. My loss!!!

Summary of Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector's Edition)

Daring. Provocative. Shocking. Compelling. Nearly thirty years after its original release, "Midnight Cowboy is still heartbreakingand timeless" (The New York Observer). This Academy Award? winner* for Best Picture, Director and Screenplay also boasts Oscar?-nominated** performances by Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, neither of whom have "ever been better on screen than they are here" (Chicago Tribune)! When Joe Buck (Voight), a good-looking,naively charming Texas "cowboy" makes his way to the Big Apple to seek his fortune, the only wealthhe 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: [a film] every bit as moving now as it was when it was [first] released" (Premiere). *1969 **1969: Actor
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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