Midnight Cowboy [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Dustin Hoffman Jon Voight Sylvia Miles John McGiver Brenda Vaccaro
	Video by:	MGM (Video & DVD)
	Sales Rank:	178679

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Actor(s):
Dustin Hoffman
Jon Voight
Sylvia Miles
John McGiver
Brenda Vaccaro

Creators:
Adam Holender (Cinematographer)
Hugh A. Robertson (Editor)
Jerome Hellman (Producer)
Kenneth Utt (Producer)
James Leo Herlihy (Writer)
Waldo Salt (Writer)

Director(s):
John Schlesinger

Recording label: MGM (Video & DVD)
EAN: 9780792838487
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 0792838483
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC,
Release Date: 1998-04-14
Universal product code (UPC): 027616689634
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)

Amazon.com essential video
The first, and only, X-rated film to win a best picture Academy Award, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy seems a lot less daring today (and has been reclassified as an R), but remains a fascinating time capsule of late-1960s sexual decadence in mainstream American cinema. In a career-making performance, Jon Voight plays Joe Buck, a naive Texas dishwasher who goes to the big city (New York) to make his fortune as a sexual hustler. Although enthusiastic about selling himself to rich ladies for stud services, he quickly finds it hard to make a living and eventually crashes in a seedy dump with a crippled petty thief named Ratzo Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman, doing one of his more effective "stupid acting tricks," with a limp and a high-pitch rasp of a voice). Schlesinger's quick-cut, semi-psychedelic style has dated severely, as has his ruthlessly cynical approach to almost everybody but the lead characters. But at its heart the movie is a sad tale of friendship between a couple of losers lost in the big city, and with an ending no studio would approve today. It's a bit like an urban Of Mice and Men, but where both guys are Lenny. --Jim Emerson

Amazon.com
The first, and only, X-rated film to win a best picture Academy Award, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy seems a lot less daring today (and has been reclassified as an R), but remains a fascinating time capsule of late-1960s sexual decadence in mainstream American cinema. In a career-making performance, Jon Voight plays Joe Buck, a naive Texas dishwasher who goes to the big city (New York) to make his fortune as a sexual hustler. Although enthusiastic about selling himself to rich ladies for stud services, he quickly finds it hard to make a living and eventually crashes in a seedy dump with a crippled petty thief named Ratzo Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman, doing one of his more effective "stupid acting tricks," with a limp and a high-pitch rasp of a voice). Schlesinger's quick-cut, semi-psychedelic style has dated severely, as has his ruthlessly cynical approach to almost everybody but the lead characters. But at its heart the movie is a sad tale of friendship between a couple of losers lost in the big city, and with an ending no studio would approve today. It's a bit like an urban Of Mice and Men, but where both guys are Lenny. --Jim Emerson

Running time: 113 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Italian (Original Language)