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Ron Woodroof. Ronald Dickson Woodroof (February 3, 1950 – September 12, 1992) was an American man who created what would become known as the Dallas Buyer's Club [9] in March 1988, one of several such AIDS buyers clubs that sprang up at the time. After learning he had contracted the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) in 1985 and being ...
Sep 29, 2020 · Ron Woodroof doesn't completely fit the ideal mold of being a hero. But what is certain is that he sure had a story to tell. After being diagnosed with AIDS and discovering that the FDA-approved ...
Nov 3, 2013 · It was called “Buying Time,” and it was the first real profile of Ron Woodroof anyone had ever done. Shortly after Minutaglio’s story appeared, screenwriter Craig Borten drove to Dallas and ...
Nov 1, 2013 · The film Dallas Buyers Club tells the story of Ron Woodroof, a man with AIDS in the 1980s who smuggled in experimental treatments to fight his disease. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports that the real ...
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Nov 1, 2013 · A month before Ronald Woodroof died of an AIDS-related illness in September 1992, screenwriter Craig Borten interviewed the proud Texan for a few days in the hopes of bringing his life to the screen.
Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée.The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, a time when both the etiology and the treatment of HIV/AIDS are poorly understood and its sufferers subject to stigmatization.
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The story of Ron Woodroof’s journey from a self-medicating electrician to a compassionate figure at the forefront of the fight against AIDS, is one of transformation, not only in his battle against the virus but in his evolving attitudes towards the community he once shunned. Dallas Buyers Club currently holds a critics score of 92% on Rotten ...
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