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Midnight Cowboy 119 minutes, USA (1969), 18
(4.5)
Rating: 4.5 Stars
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Average user rating (4.7 / 57 votes)

Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman star in John Schlesinger's Oscar-winning street life drama. A naive, young country boy travels to New York to make his fortune as a gigolo

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Midnight Cowboy: Released to massive acclaim in 1969, John Schlesinger's bleak trawl through 1960s New York was the first X-rated film ever to win an Academy Award. Sentimental and sensationalist but also sensitive and sad, it showcases two immensely skilled performances by Voight and Hoffman, and the intervening decades have done little to lessen its impact, or its poignancy...
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