Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy

1969 · 1 hr 53 min · X

Drama

Directors

John Schlesinger

Actors

  • Dustin Hoffman
  • Jon Voight
  • Sylvia Miles

Credits: 1

Summary

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

More about this movie

Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York City for the first time. Preening himself as a real "hustler", he finds that he is the one getting "hustled" until he teams up with down-and-out but resilient outcast 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. Each has found his first real friend.