Midnight Cowboy

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Midnight Cowboy

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Nov 10, 2014

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A small-time cartoonish cowboy hits the big time and struggles to find his dimwitted footing. This portrait of NYC in the late ‘60s is rough & grimy. At least stars Jon Voight & Dustin Hoffman get to share a bromance before that word even existed. The flick is riddled with fantasies & flashbacks. Does it hold up? G’head and find out!

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Nov 10, 2014

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Ryan and Bev Ellis are partners in film nerdery who share their often humorous musings on the AFI's 1998 & 2007 lists of the greatest 100 American films ever made. But we finished with that in December 2015, so now we just review anything we feel like!

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