Drugstore Cowboy [VHS]
by Gus Van Sant
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Actor: Eric Hull, Heather Graham, James LeGros, Kelly Lynch, Matt DillonDirector: Gus Van Sant
Writer: Gus Van Sant
Producer: Cary Brokaw
Producer: Karen Murphy
Producer: Nick Wechsler
Writer: Daniel Yost
Writer: James Fogle
Writer: William S. Burroughs
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 102 minutes
Release Date: 1993-12-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Live / Artisan
Studio: Live / Artisan
VHS Movie Reviews of Drugstore Cowboy [VHS]
Movie Review: Like having to tie your shoes
Summary: 5 Stars
Matt Dillon is unusually good. The story is exciting and suspenseful with some surprisingly funny moments as well. My favorite line when he checks into rehab and the lady is asking him questions:
"Have you ever considered becoming a counselor and helping other addicts with their problems?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Well, to begin with, nobody, and I mean nobody, can talk a junkie out of using. You can talk to them for years, but sooner or later they're gonna get ahold of something. Maybe it's not dope - maybe it's booze - maybe it's glue, maybe it's gasoline. Maybe it's a gunshot in their head - but something, something to releive the pressures of their everyday life... like having to tie their shoes."
The filming is good, the acting is good, the story is good. Was sorry to see it end when it did. This movie was filmed in 1989, set in 1971. For another very excellent junkie movie with a killer twist, try Born to Win. While Drugstore Cowboy was set in '71, Born to Win was filmed in 1971. For being the late 80s, Drugstore Cowboy does OK at recreating the era. It's strong point though is it's lack of melodrama and overacting in a story with characters that are simultaneously sympathetic and corrupt.
Summary of Drugstore Cowboy [VHS]
Gus Van Sant made his name with this offbeat story of a small group of drug addicts who heist pharmacies to feed their habit. Matt Dillon completely broke with his juvenile persona as Bob, the grungy ringleader and jittery mastermind of a junkie crew. With his frustrated wife Dianne (Kelly Lynch), his loyal partner, the easygoing Rick (James Le Gros), and Rick's juvenile girlfriend Nadine (Heather Graham in an early role), Bob plots ingenious heists and spends the rest of his days sitting around the house getting high. When the heat becomes too intense in Portland, the quartet hits the road for small-town drug stores and hospitals, but when their luck runs out it does so in grand fashion. Set in the Pacific Northwest of 1971, Van Sant so effortlessly re-creates the period that you'd think the film was a time capsule--except for the attitude. Van Sant refuses to moralize and lines his sympathies behind his characters. They're no heroes, but Van Sant can't cast them as villains either. His low-key direction concentrates on the flavor of day-to-day life for a crew of junkies living from fix to fix. Even his drug imagery is inventively placid, a dreamy set of floating visions that suggests their own disembodied states. James Remar costars as the dogged police detective Gentry and cult author William S. Burroughs makes a memorable appearance as the aging junkie Tom the Priest. --Sean AxmakerDrama VHS Video
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