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Midnight Cowboy
1969
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 (Jon Voight - DELIVERANCE, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE), a male prostitute from Texas, heads to Manhattan .. Read more
| Starring | Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro |
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| Director | John Schlesinger |
| Genres | Drama |
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John Schlesinger won the best director Oscar for this tawdry, strident yet deeply affecting tale of a naive Texas stud striking up a relationship with a tubercular conman. Schlesinger was the perfect director to cast an alien eye on Manhattan's sexual permissiveness and Warhol weirdness, and exposes the jaundiced stratum beneath the hip surface with scalpel-sharp precision. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman are a perfectly matched odd couple adrift on the sea of amorality in a warped buddy picture that cleverly walks a fine line between warmth and cruelty. The film also won Oscars for best film and best screenplay.
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"...[The performances] have lost none of their magic....[They show us] characters who have nothing to offer the audience but their own lost souls." -- Rating: A-
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Outrageously overrated at the cynical end of the Swinging Sixties, when the seedy New York milieu in which the pathetic... read more on Time Out
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70 out of 83 people found this review helpful
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18 out of 22 people found this review helpful
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy
D. John Schlesinger
This was Schlesinger?s first film in America. It stars John Voight as Joe Buck, a rather simple minded... more -
11 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Unforgettable
There are certain movies that, whether they like it or not, EVERYONE should watch at least once. These movies include 'Taxi Driver', 'Casablanca'... more
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Unforgettable cinema
An outstanding character piece; watch this film over and over and each time a little more of each character will be revealed that you missed before.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
An OK Film
Again another recomended film, but didn't live up to what i was expecting.
But it did have an ok storyline, with good characters that did keep me... more
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70 out of 83 people found this review helpful
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18 out of 22 people found this review helpful
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy
D. John Schlesinger
This was Schlesinger?s first film in America. It stars John Voight as Joe Buck, a rather simple minded... more -
11 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Unforgettable
There are certain movies that, whether they like it or not, EVERYONE should watch at least once. These movies include 'Taxi Driver', 'Casablanca'... more
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10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Where's that Joe Buck?
How to begin to try to review a classic like this..? it?s about naivety, it's about the 60's, it's about New York, it's about society, it's ... more
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Unforgettable cinema
An outstanding character piece; watch this film over and over and each time a little more of each character will be revealed that you missed before.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
I simply love this film... It's an honest, gritty portrayl of the seedy underbelly of New York & how two very different characters (Voight &... more
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Critics' reviews (4)
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John Schlesinger won the best director Oscar for this tawdry, strident yet deeply affecting tale of a naive Texas stud striking up a relationship with a tubercular conman. Schlesinger was the perfect director to cast an alien eye on Manhattan's sexual permissiveness and Warhol weirdness, and exposes the jaundiced stratum beneath the hip surface with scalpel-sharp precision. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman are a perfectly matched odd couple adrift on the sea of amorality in a warped buddy picture that cleverly walks a fine line between warmth and cruelty. The film also won Oscars for best film and best screenplay.
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"...[The performances] have lost none of their magic....[They show us] characters who have nothing to offer the audience but their own lost souls." -- Rating: A-
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Outrageously overrated at the cynical end of the Swinging Sixties, when the seedy New York milieu in which the pathetic... read more on Time Out
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Life in the New York gutter, brilliantly if not too accurately observed by a master showman with no heart.
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