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Midnight Cowboy

7.5/10

Rating

113 min

Runtime

1969

Release Year

John Schlesinger

Director

Cast

Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro

Quick Synopsis

Joe Buck, a young man from Texas, moves to New York City with the hope of making money by attracting wealthy women. Struggling to succeed on his own, he forms an unlikely friendship with Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, a sickly con artist with a limp who dreams of leaving the city to start a new life in Florida.

Detailed Synopsis of Midnight Cowboy

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.

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