Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy takes a look at the seamier side of life in New York, where exiled Southerner Joe Buck (Voight) is aiming to make his living as a 'stud'. Patently too ... more >

Midnight Cowboy takes a look at the seamier side of life in New York, where exiled Southerner Joe Buck (Voight) is aiming to make his living as a 'stud'. Patently too moral, lacking in self-confidence and burdened by events from his past (seen sporadically in flashback) to make this dream as successful as he would like, he is forced instead to co-habit cheaply with crippled scrounger 'Ratso' Rizzo (Hoffman). Together they plan an eventual relocation to Florida, which inspires one of the film's most memorable scenes, whereby Ratso's sun-kissed thoughts are intercut with Voight bungling an 'assignation' to a musical backdrop of John Barry's evocative Florida Fantasy. Ultimately, events conspire to force this dream to become a reality of sorts...but will they get there?

This was the first X-rated film ever to scoop the Oscar for Best Picture. It has dated in places, but is nonethless an intriguing snapshot of late '60s America and is sensitively acted by Voight and Hoff man, not to mention Barry's brilliant score. < less

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• Widescreen. Soundtrack options: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish. Subtitled in 15 languages, plus HOH subtitles in English.

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Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Bob Balaban

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