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Midnight Cowboy
For those who have never seen it and those who have never forgotten it.
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
- Year: 1969
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Florin Productions, Jerome Hellman Productions, United Artists
- Keyword: new york city, friendship, rape, based on novel or book, shower, texas, hustler, homelessness, rape of a male, male homosexuality, male prostitution, fish out of water, gang rape, cynical, lgbt, male bonding, polio, 1960s, anxious, cautionary, provocative
- Director: John Schlesinger
- Cast: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes