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- Ron Woodroof was about the most unlikely of heroes in the frightening early days of Aids in the 1980s – a homophobic, cocaine-snorting, sex-addicted Texas rodeo cowboy who crudely made fun of actor Rock Hudson’s battle against the disease. No one wanted to make the film about the guy for the longest time, says actor Matthew McConaughey.
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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 in March 1988, one of several such AIDS buyers clubs that sprang up at the time.
Sep 29, 2020 · Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, the film stars Matthew McConaughey as Woodroof, whose journey goes from grief-stricken homophobe to operator of a grey market syndicate providing non-FDA-approved...
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.
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Nov 3, 2013 · Minutaglio eventually tracked down Ron Woodroof, the wiry, mustachioed, foul-mouthed head of Dallas’s homegrown buyers club, and convinced Woodroof to tell him all about his exploits.
Nov 1, 2013 · Woodroof’s story—brought to Borten’s attention by a friend—was both fascinating and important: After Woodroof learned of his illness in the mid-’80s and after he was turned down for the new...
The 2013 biographical drama, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, investigates the life of Ron Woodroof, a rodeo cowboy from Dallas, Texas, who led a life that dramatically changed course after his HIV diagnosis in 1985.
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 ...
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