Review of Midnight Cowboy (1969) by Stuart K — 10 Jul 2008
British director John Schlesinger went to America with this low-budget drama, and it helped change the course of cinema forever!! This has dim-witted Texan Joe Buck (Jon Voight), travelling to New York to make his fortune as a hustler, but it doesn't.
..(read more) work out as well as he hoped. But he soon falls in with down-and-outer Rico Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), who happens to have tuberculosis, the two form a very close friendship and end up depending on one another to survive in the slums of New York.
This is a film that will always stand the test of time, it shows the dark side of late 1960's America, but stuff like this happens all the time anywhere in the world, but Schlesinger paints a good picture of America at this time, with an outsiders view of the curiousities of the land of the free.
It helped put Hoffman and Voight on the road to superstardom, and it became the first 'X' rated film to win the Best Picture Oscar. An engaging and ultimately heartbreaking film of the pursuit of the American Dream.
This review of Midnight Cowboy (1969) was written by Stuart K on 10 Jul 2008.
Midnight Cowboy has generally received very positive reviews.
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