Midnight Cowboy is a movie directed by John Schlesinger in 1969 and based on the book of the same name by James Leo Herlihy, first published in 1965. The movie features Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Ruth White, and others.
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“The movie is better than the book”
But the book is worth reading.
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Storyline
Joe Buck, a young Texan working as a dishwasher, quits his job and heads to New York City to become a male prostitute hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women. In New York Joe finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Genres
Movie vs Book
Year
1969
Minutes
113
Movie Rate
7.80
Source: IMDb
Movie
Midnight Cowboy
Director: John Schlesinger
Country: USA
Year: 1969
Length: 1h53m
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Year
1965
Pages
260
Book Rate
7.86
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Book
Midnight Cowboy
Author: James Leo Herlihy
Country: USA
First published in: 1965
Length: 260 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“The book is so rich. There are so many fantastic details, but in order to preserve and have the time to bring that to the screen, we had to make important choices.”
DENIS VILLENEUVE (Filmmaker, Scriptwriter)
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