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| Year | | |
1969 |
| Country | | |
USA |
| Genre | | |
Drama |
| Length | | |
1:53 |
| Director | | |
John Schlesinger |
| Writer | | |
James Leo Herlihy
Waldo Salt |
| Company | | |
United Artists |
| Starring | | |
Dustin Hoffman
Jon Voight
Sylvia Miles
John McGiver
Brenda Vaccaro
Barnard Hughes
Ruth White
Jennifer Salt
Gilman Rankin
Gary Owens
T. Tom Marlow
George Eppersen
Al Scott
Linda Davis
J.T. Masters |
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 10/10
3 reviews - click here to read
John Schlesinger's Oscar-winning film, which features brilliant performances by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, brought an unusually gritty realism to the screen and offered a then-rare portrait of New York's street scene. Joe Buck (Voight), a male prostitute from Texas, heads to Manhattan where he hopes to find plenty of wealthy women willing to pay for the services of a handsome man. When he arrives, the naive country boy befriends Ratso Rizzo (Hoffman), a tubercular, homeless con artist who dreams of moving to Florida. As they go about trying to get the money Ratso needs, the two men see and confront all the seediness, corruption, and cruelty that flourish in the big city.
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