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Summary:
Based on a James Leo Herlihy novel, British director John Schlesinger's first American film dramatized the small hopes, dashed dreams, and unlikely friendship of two late '60s lost souls. Dreaming of an easy life as a fantasy cowboy stud, cheerful Texas rube Joe Buck (Jon Voight) heads to New York City to be a gigolo, but he quickly discovers that hustling isn't what he thought it ... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Dustin Hoffman - (Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo)
Jon Voight - (Joe Buck)
Sylvia Miles - (Cass)
John McGiver - (O'Daniel)
Brenda Vaccaro - (Shirley)
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Review:
After earning notoriety as one of the first major studio films to be given an X rating (it was later re-rated R), Midnight Cowboy made history as the first X-rated film to win an Oscar for Best Picture. A brutal depiction of broken dreams and lives asunder in the fetid backwash of the swinging Sixties, Cowboy shocked audiences with its sq... Continue >>

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