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Nov 1, 2013 · Dallas Buyers Club rests squarely on Matthew McConaughey's scrawny shoulders, and he carries the burden gracefully with what might be a career-best performance. Read Critics Reviews
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Nov 1, 2013 · To give credit where it's arguably due, "Dallas Buyers Club," directed by Jean-Marc Vallée from a screenplay by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, takes a different storytelling tack than might be expected of an aspiring-to-inspire based-on-a-true-story drama.
- One-man rodeo.
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By Roth Cornet
Posted: Oct 31, 2013 11:42 pm
Matthew McConaughey is finally fulfilling the promise he demonstrated when he first emerged on the scene decades ago. After a series of at best formulaic rom-coms and quasi-adventure films, McConaughey seems to have decided to put his chops on full display with one fearless portrayal after another in The Lincoln Lawyer, Bernie, Killer Joe, Magic Mike, Mud, and, beginning this Friday, Dallas Buyers Club.
The actor was particularly attached to Dallas Buyers Club, which spent 10 years languishing in development limbo as producers worked to put the financing together. As far as the performances are concerned, it was well worth the wait. The based-on-true-events story follows McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, a gambling, womanizing, homophobic, self-proclaimed one-man rodeo drunkard who becomes an unlikely anti-establishment hero. He emerges as the leader of a fight to get non-FDA-approved drugs and supplements to AIDS patients during the volatile early days of the epidemic.
An electrician and part-time bookie, Woodroof is diagnosed with HIV in 1985 after a work-related accident sends him to the hospital. By the time of his diagnosis, Woodroof's illness had escalated into full-blown AIDS and he is given a mere 30 days to live. To his credit, the man is simply too stubborn to die. After the initial shock of having succumbed to what he, and most of the nation at that point, thought of as a “gay” disease, Woodroof puts his criminal leanings and resourcefulness to use in the fight to save his own life.
When the hospital refuses to grant him access to AZT, which was still in trials at that point, Woodroof pays a janitor to smuggle him the drug. After toxic doses nearly kill him, he turns to an unlicensed MD in Mexico, played perfectly by a nearly unrecognizable Griffin Dunne, for alternative medicines.
Dallas Buyers Club, which is notable for the actors' physical alterations, is ultimately about the transformation of a man from a homophobic wastrel into the leader of a grassroots campaign for survival -- both his own, and those he once reviled. Ron Woodroof's story has a universal appeal in that it examines the way in which our greatest challenge...
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Grim, intense movie tells a powerful, relevant true story. Read Common Sense Media's Dallas Buyers Club review, age rating, and parents guide.
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Feb 6, 2014 · Review. Dallas Buyers Club – review. Its politics appear conservative, but this Reagan-era story of a heterosexual 'good ol' boy' who imports and sells Aids therapies has a barnstorming...
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Sep 8, 2013 · Film Review: ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto give terrific performances in this riveting and surprisingly relatable true story.
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