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Midnight Cowboy (1969)

★ 7.5 · 1,585 ratings on TMDB

For those who have never seen it and those who have never forgotten it.

Midnight Cowboy poster★ 7.5

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.

DirectorJohn Schlesinger
CastBarnard Hughes, Brenda Vaccaro, Dustin Hoffman, Gary Owens, Gilman Rankin, Jennifer Salt
GenresDrama
The emergence reading

Midnight Cowboy keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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