Midnight Cowboy

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

Plot Summary

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.

7.5 /10

1969

US

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