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Oct 20, 1989 · Drugstore Cowboy: Directed by Gus Van Sant. With Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Le Gros, Heather Graham. A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law.
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- Crime, Drama
- Gus Van Sant
- 1989-10-20
Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 American crime drama film directed by the American filmmaker Gus Van Sant. Written by Van Sant and Daniel Yost and based on an autobiographical novel by James Fogle , the film stars Matt Dillon , Kelly Lynch , Heather Graham and William S. Burroughs .
The movie stars Matt Dillon, in one of the great recent American movie performances, as the leader of a pack of two young couples who are on the prowl in Washington and Oregon. It is 1971, and they are the rear guard of the love generation.
Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon) is the leader of a "family" of drug addicts consisting of his wife, Dianne (Kelly Lynch), and another couple who feed their habit by robbing drug stores as they...
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- Gus Van Sant
- R
- Matt Dillon
In 1971, in Portland, Bob, his girlfriend Dianne and his friends Rick and his girlfriend Nadine are smalltime thieves of drugstores and hospitals. They spend their lives drugged and Bob is chased by the abusive police detective Gentry (James Remar).
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Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets in order to appease their insatiable need for drugs.