Fresh
All the actors are used expertly, but it's Burroughs, cropping up near the end, who articulates the film's sociopolitical moral in a contemporary context.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Drugstore Cowboy
Sooner or later, someone will pay the price.
1989 · 1h 42m · R
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Gus Van Sant
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Drugstore Cowboy
Overview
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets in order to appease their insatiable need for drugs. But neither fun nor luck last forever.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
No previous drug-themed film has the honesty or originality of Gus Van Sant's drama Drugstore Cowboy.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Though hardly earth-shakingly original, Van Sant's low-budget movie takes a cool, contemplative and sometimes comic look at American drug-culture.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
The film takes us so deeply into this shabby, transient world that we feel its texture -- both its scary thrills and its bleak, fatalistic uncertainty.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
The movie stars Matt Dillon, in one of the great recent American movie performances.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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