Northwest Film Forum

Opening night introduced by film critic Ted Fry

A year after the MPAA’s film rating system was established, Midnight Cowboy’s X rating (for its brief nudity and frank portrayal of prostitution and homosexuality) did nothing to stop it from being a huge box office draw and winning Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. This New York story of dreams, friendship and male prostitution introduced two unforgettable drifters into our collective consciousness. Naïve Texan stud Joe Buck (Jon Voight) and the cynical and seedy Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) become unlikely pals in the grubby underside of Times Square.

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