Midnight Cowboy
1969 · TMDB 7.5
Directed by John Schlesinger
Joe 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.
Why it matters
Joe Buck, a naive Texan, heads to New York to become a hustler for rich women, but ends up forming an unlikely partnership with the sickly con man Ratso Rizzo. Theirs is a transaction of survival that grows into a profound, aching friendship.
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Released
- 1969-05-25
- Studio
- Florin Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.5
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