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.
new york city
friendship
prostitute
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