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Midnight Cowboy
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Product Details
- Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro
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- Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: John Schlesinger
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- EAN: 9780792838487
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- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
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- ISBN: 0792838483
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- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
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- Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
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- Release Date: 1998-04-14
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- Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1969
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- Title: Midnight Cowboy
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- UPC: 027616689634
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: 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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Customer Reviews
something's missing
I loved Midnight Cowboy, however this version is shortened from what I remember. Some scenes shortened or left out.
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Still...
...my favorite movie ever made. And I've always felt that things were going to improve for Joe in Florida (Ratso's character had served his purpose) - I get that from his reaction to the girl who smiles and is kind to him at that last bus stop.....he is a different person, now.
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acting tour de force!
MIDNIGHT COWBOY will always be a classic due to the superb acting by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. Top notch performances also by Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes and splendid direction by John Schlesinger and a legendary song 'Everybodys Talkin' by Harry Nilsson. Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. This film released in 1969 brings two 'losers' together in the big city and their unlikely relationship culminates in one of the most impressionable final film scenes of all-time. A little dated as far as the outrageous party scenes but still a powerful, emotional film.
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I Don't Get It
I didn't get this at all!! The flashbacks were totally confusing Dustin Hoffman talking like a cartoon character while limping through the city was irritating and Jon Voight was boring. I know this is supposed to be one the best movies ever made, but I didn't like it at all.
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A MASTERPICE
It's one of the films that made the late sixties and seventies the second golden age of film making. When you're talking about human nature nothing can be outdated. The script is superb and the director and cast do it full justice. If your a film student or film buff you have, no doubt, seen this or know about it.
If you've never heard of it I suggest you move on.
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