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Midnight Cowboy

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

Midnight Cowboy

1969

John Schlesinger

Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, Sylvia Miles ...

7.6

35,885

Drama Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real 'hustler', he finds that he is the one getting 'hustled' until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial 'country cousin meets city cousin' relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Robert J. Landry Variety	"The sometimes amusing but essentially sordid saga of a male prostitute in Manhattan (...) 'Midnight Cowboy' is of the modern moment moderne. It has a hot topical theme."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Midnight Cowboy' comes heartbreakingly close to being the movie we want it to be. The performances have a flat, painful accuracy (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Wanda Hale New York Daily News	"'Midnight Cowboy' is a grim, raw, lewd drama (...) Even with every foot of grim realism and some humor, 'Midnight Cowboy' is rather a sad picture."
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The acting, showy and instinctual, is most of the movie; the visual style is too forced and chicly distended to let the drama acquire much natural life of its own."
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"It is tough and good in important ways (...) A moving experience that captures the quality of a time and a place."
		Adam Smith Empire	"Superb performances and a compelling script have made this film a strange mix of Oscar-winner and Cult Classic (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Gwilym Mumford The Guardian	"'Midnight Cowboy' is a great film (...) This is a story that still lingers (...) It’s one of those rare films that you end up thinking about all the time."
		Noel Murray AV Club	"[It] is legitimately expressive (...) Nearly every scene in 'Midnight Cowboy' contains layers of symbolism."
		Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"It's all wonderful to watch (...) A funky, visually lively experience. Most importantly, the performances by Hoffman and Voight are big."
		Geoff Andrew Time Out	"The film indulges in bland satire, fashionable flashiness, and a sodden sentimentality that never admits either to its homosexual elements or to the basic misogyny of its stance."
		Alan Jones Radio Times	"Schlesinger was the perfect director to cast an alien eye on Manhattan's sexual permissiveness and Warhol weirdness (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Patrick Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"Masterpiece"

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