Dallas Buyers Club

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Dallas Buyers Club

R

Released Nov 1, 2013

1h 57m

Drama

LGBTQ+

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In mid-1980s Texas, electrician Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is stunned to learn that he has AIDS. Though told that he has just 30 days left to live, Woodroof refuses to give in to despair. He seeks out alternative therapies and smuggles unapproved drugs into the U.S. from wherever he can find them. Woodroof joins forces with a fellow AIDS patient (Jared Leto) and begins selling the treatments to the growing number of people who can't wait for the medical establishment to save them.

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Critics Consensus

Dallas Buyers Club rests squarely on Matthew McConaughey's scrawny shoulders, and he carries the burden gracefully with what might be a career-best performance.

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Eleven

Autostraddle

The film fails to break the pattern of transphobic narratives in cinema, perhaps because it doesn't understand that trans people are not the same as cis gay people.

Jun 14, 2021

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Kate Muir

Times (UK)

Sometimes a character punches through the screen, beyond the film containing him. Matthew McConaughey's performance as an HIV-positive cowboy in Dallas Buyers Club is one of those moments.

Jan 2, 2018

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Candice Frederick

Reel Talk Online

Though Jean-Marc Valle's direction is sometimes indistinct, it does allow the actors to come off more inhibited in their performances and each scene is that much more authentic.

Rated: A

Sep 6, 2017

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

It's a shattering performance swinging between power and vulnerability minute-to-minute.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 7, 2024

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Erick Estrada

Cinegarage

... At times, the film feels like a pharmaceutical road movie, at others, like a gritty urban Western and an escape/chase movie like Catch Me If You Can (2002), without Spielberg's charms but with Vallée's denunciations. [Full review in Spanish]

Feb 7, 2023

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Kaleem Aftab

Filmmaker Magazine

As a movie it’s a little haphazard and it takes the misstep of trying too hard to create a strong dramatic arc by overegging his wild days that led to him catching the virus.

Dec 5, 2022

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Rob A

6 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor (Mathew McConaughey) and Best Supporting Actor (Jared Leto) make this based-on-a-true-story feature a must see. It's set in the mid 1980's when an AIDS diagnosis was essentially a death sentence, and shows how desperate people - who contracted the disease in a variety of ways - band together to try to survive, even if that means taking on the FDA. We also see the transformation of a man from homophobic cowboy to someone much more more tolerant; much more kind. I'm glad Hollywood choose to tell this story (and Jennifer Garner was excellent as well!)

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/21/25

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Paul E

Too slow and a lot of the fabricated parts of the story aren't that interesting or believable.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/16/25

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Gerard B

Really amazing movie

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/23/25

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Jerrod G

Started off in a different way but came through with a strong story line. Matt wearing like a 28 in belt wrapped twice

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/15/25

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Parsons P

No surprise but yet again Matthew gave another amazing performance in this film.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/25

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Lara H

Matthew was the best preference out of everyone in this movie

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

11/24/24

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Synopsis

In mid-1980s Texas, electrician Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is stunned to learn that he has AIDS. Though told that he has just 30 days left to live, Woodroof refuses to give in to despair. He seeks out alternative therapies and smuggles unapproved drugs into the U.S. from wherever he can find them. Woodroof joins forces with a fellow AIDS patient (Jared Leto) and begins selling the treatments to the growing number of people who can't wait for the medical establishment to save them.

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Producer: Rachel Winter, Robbie Brenner
Screenwriter: Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack
Distributor: Focus Features
Production Co: Voltage Pictures, Evolution Independent, R2 Films
Rating: R (Nudity|Drug Use|Pervasive Language|Some Strong Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 1, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 4, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $27.3M
Runtime: 1h 57m

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