Midnight Cowboy
A naive hustler goes to New York to seek personal fortune but in the process finds himself a new friend, a con man. The two then together try to survive on the tough streets of New York.
24 April 1914, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
17 April 1911, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
18 October 1914, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 February 1938, New York City, New York, USA
6 September 1935, Grenoble, France
16 August 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 September 1932, New York City, New York, USA
23 September 1939, USA
31 January 1948, Brooklyn, New York, USA
11 December 1937, Columbus, Ohio, USA
January 13, 2014
We can identify with them without false sentimentality and it is impossible not to do so.
February 12, 2013
Strip away everything else and it's the performances that make Midnight Cowboy what it is.
February 23, 2015
No amount of obfuscation can obscure the film's vaulting performances.
December 09, 2011
"Midnight Cowboy" is an exquisite time capsule. The film is filled with dark social and political commentary. Only through his problematic friendship with Ratzo can Buck reclaim his humanity.
September 07, 2011
Midnight Cowboy's peep-show vision of Manhattan lowlife may no longer be shocking, but what is shocking, in 1994, is to see a major studio film linger this lovingly on characters who have nothing to offer the audience but their own lost souls.
February 23, 2015
Even with every foot of grim realism and some humor, Midnight Cowboy is rather a sad picture.
July 01, 2014
Classic Oscar winner has explicit material, mature themes.
September 02, 2014
Midnight Cowboy moves beyond realism into an archetypal tale of the Big City destroying dreamers. Joe and Ratso, like Of Mice and Men's George and Lenny, are quintessential failed, lower-class, buddy-dreamers.
January 13, 2014
[A] tawdry, strident yet deeply affecting tale.
February 22, 2016
Some of the attitudes in Midnight Cowboy -- especially toward women -- don't wear the years well, but the performances by Hoffman and Jon Voight remain electric.
February 12, 2013
The attempt to wring tender laughter from such a topic strikes me as being itself a kind of commercialized vice.
