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Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

★ 7.9 · 9,037 ratings on TMDB

Dare to live.

Dallas Buyers Club poster★ 7.9

Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

DirectorJean-Marc Vallée
CastDallas Roberts, Denis O'Hare, Donna DuPlantier, Griffin Dunne, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner
GenresDrama, History
The emergence reading

Dallas Buyers Club keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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