Dustin Hoffman
Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo
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Midnight Cowboy. Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. The film stars Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, with supporting roles played by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Salt and Barnard Hughes.
- $3.2 million
- John Barry
- May 25, 1969
- Jerome Hellman
Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight star as two naive hustlers who travel from Texas to New York City in search of fortune and friendship. The film won three Oscars and is a classic of the genre, but also a bleak portrayal of poverty and loneliness in the city.
- (117K)
- Drama
- John Schlesinger
- 1969-05-25
Academy Award (1970) Midnight Cowboy, American dramatic film, released in 1969, that depicted the squalid lives and desperate friendship of two broken drifters and became the only X-rated (meaning that only adults could see it) movie to win an Academy Award for best picture (the movie’s rating was later changed to R). Midnight Cowboy.
- Pat Bauer
A 1969 drama about a Texas hustler and a sickly New Yorker who form a friendship. See critic and audience ratings, clips, photos, and more on Rotten Tomatoes.
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- John Schlesinger
- R
- Dustin Hoffman
A classic drama about two outcasts, Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo, who form a friendship in New York City. Joe, a naive Texas hustler, and Ratso, a sickly con man, dream of escaping to Florida, but face hardships and betrayals along the way.
Jul 5, 1994 · A classic film about the love story of a naïve drifter and a street hustler in 1960s New York, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. Ebert praises the performances, but criticizes the film's excesses and detours, and its treatment of the characters' reality and sexuality.
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Ebert criticizes the film's gimmicky and trendy elements that undermine its potential greatness. He praises the performances of Voight and Hoffman as Joe Buck and Ratso, two castaways in Times Square.
