Midnight Cowboy
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
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"Midnight Cowboy (1969) This is such a gritty, touching story of two ordinary vulnerable young men, told with such honesty, it's impossible to criticize it taken whole. "Midnight Cowboy" is a terrific movie. It's terrific because of the two actors--an astonishing Dustin Hoffman, still a new name in Hollywood but already famous from "The Graduate" in 1967. And an equally astonishing Jon Voight, making his first large role in a movie. Each is a type of struggling man living on the fringe of New York (barely surviving in a boarded up building), extreme but never a ..."
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Before Dustin Hoffman auditioned for this film, he knew that the all-American image that he carried after The Graduate (1967) could easily cost him the job. To prove that he could play Rizzo, he asked the auditioning film executive to meet him on a street corner in Manhattan. He dressed in filthy rags. The executive arrived at the appointed corner and waited, barely noticing the "beggar" not 10 feet away who was accosting people for spare change. The beggar finally walked up to him and revealed his true identity.
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A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.