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Midnight Cowboy
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Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger and produced by Jerome Hellman. The cast includes Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, and Brenda Vaccaro. The screenplay was written by Waldo Salt and James Leo Herlihy, based on the work Midnight Cowboy. United Artists served as the production company, with Adam Holender as director of photography and John Barry as composer. The film is classified as a buddy film, drama, and LGBTQ-related film, with a runtime of 113 minutes.
Set in New York City, Texas, and Florida, the narrative explores themes of prostitution, male prostitution, urbanity, and loneliness. It is associated with the New Hollywood movement. The film received the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, along with the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films. It was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress, Best Actor, and Best Film Editing.
The movie has a Metascore of 79 and an IMDb rating of 7.8. It was rated R and had a budget of 3,600,000 with a revenue of 44,785,053.
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7.5Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Cast
- Dustin Hoffman as Ratso
- Jon Voight as Joe Buck
- Sylvia Miles as Cass
- John McGiver as Mr. O'Daniel
- Brenda Vaccaro as Shirley
- Barnard Hughes as Towny
Themes
- new york city
- friendship
- prostitute
- rape
- based on novel or book
- shower
- texas
- hustler
- homelessness
- rape of a male
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Ratings
IMDb
7.8/10
130,799 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
89%
Metacritic
79/100
- Year
- 1969
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Won 3 Oscars. 28 wins & 16 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- LGBTQ-related film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Midnight Cowboy
- Main subject
- counterculture of the 1960s
- Depicts
- cruising for sex
- Movement
- New Hollywood
- Director
- John Schlesinger
- Screenwriter
- James Leo Herlihy
- Cast member
- Paul Morrissey
- Composer
- John Barry
- Producer
- Jerome Hellman
- Production company
- United Artists
- Cinematographer
- Adam Holender
- Narrative location
- Florida
- Filming location
- Florida
- Duration
- 108
- FilmAffinity ID
- 906560
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.mgm.com/view/movie/1251/Midnight-Cowboy
- Image
- Midnight Cowboy trailer - poster.jpg
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- publication date
- 1969-05-25
- film editor
- Hugh A. Robertson
- title
- Midnight Cowboy
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- distributed by
- Netflix
- after a work by
- James Leo Herlihy
- set in period
- 1960s
- review score
- 7.8/10
- Commons category
- Midnight Cowboy
- capital cost
- 3200000
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Encyclopedic overview
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy. The film stars Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, with supporting roles played by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Salt and Barnard Hughes. Set in New York City, Midnight Cowboy depicts the unlikely friendship between two lost and lonely hustlers: naïve prostitute Joe Buck (Voight) and ailing con man Rico Rizzo (Hoffman), referred to as "Ratso".
At the 42nd Academy Awards, the film won three awards: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film (equivalent of the current NC-17 rating) to win Best Picture and the only X-rated film ever to win an Academy Award. It placed 36th on the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 100 greatest American films of all time, and 43rd on its 2007 updated version.
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