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    Midnight Cowboy

    Poster of the movie Midnight Cowboy
    1969     Drama    
    USA
    1h 53min
    R
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA.

    John Schlesinger's Oscar-winning film, which features brilliant performances by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, brought an unusually gritty realism to the screen and offered a then-rare portrait of New York's street scene. Joe Buck (Voight), a male prostitute from Texas, heads to Manhattan where he hopes to find plenty of wealthy women willing to pay for the services of a handsome man. When he arrives, the naive country boy befriends Ratso Rizzo (Hoffman), a tubercular, homeless con artist who dreams of moving to Florida. As they go about trying to get the money Ratso needs, the two men see and confront all the seediness, corruption, and cruelty that flourish in the big city.

    Directed byJohn Schlesinger
    Written byJames Leo Herlihy, Waldo Salt
    CompanyUnited ArtistsUnited ArtistsUnited Artists

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    Starring

    Dustin Hoffman
    Jon Voight
    Brenda Vaccaro
    Sylvia Miles
    Bob Balaban
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