Synopsis
Sometimes it takes a hustler to change the world
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
2013 Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
Matthew McConaughey Jennifer Garner Jared Leto Denis O'Hare Steve Zahn Michael O'Neill Dallas Roberts Griffin Dunne Kevin Rankin Donna DuPlantier Deneen Tyler J.D. Evermore Ian Casselberry Noelle Wilcox Bradford Cox Rick Espaillat Lawrence Turner Lucius Falick James DuMont Jane McNeill Don Brady Matthew Thompson Tony Bentley Sean Boyd Rachel Wulff Neeona Neal Scott Takeda Jonathan Tabler Joji Yoshida Show All…
Holly Wiersma David L. Bushell Cassian Elwes Nicolas Chartier Zev Foreman Logan Levy Joe Newcomb Tony Notargiacomo Nathan Ross
Truth Entertainment Voltage Pictures CE Evolution Independent R² Films Rainmaker Films Focus Features
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It's easy, if one only ever has to suffer a few times a year the no-budget, no-talent indies dumped on one-week NY runs and burned onto screener discs, to have a charmed view of what constitutes a bad film. Truth be told, with the number of films produced domestically exploding in recent years thanks to mass proliferation of acceptable-quality, cheap DV, it's a good bet that the vast majority of American movies made each year now consist of films made by people with little to no experience, often no real ambition or even point of view, and no discernible talent. Even those of us who only ever see about five or six of these a year are confronted with stunted…
Matthew fuckin' McConaughey as Ron fuckin' Woodroof a cowboy-bigot-homophobic-party-animal who becomes a pioneer in the treatment of AIDS after his own diagnosis. Wasted-Hollywood-pussy. A sad-face clown. Shocking the shit out of yourself. Shocking-fuckin'-news. Nothing can kill Ron Woodroof in 30-fuckin'-days. A trailer-park-orgy. Elektra's cardboard acting. Alienation by your so-called-friends. Back the fuck off Tinkerbell. Scoring a lifeline in a strip club. Handsome in a Texas-hick-white-trash kind of way. Rayon doesn't bite. Preferring to die with your boots on. A little-white-lie to the FDA. An unlikely business partner. The bar you never thought you would visit. Starting up a new club. Global travels. A big-as-fuck cellphone. The fuckin' IRS. A dinner date with the good doctor. Feeling human again. A total-fuckin'-bullshit…
casting a man as a trans woman is bad enough on its own but like
it had to be jared leto?? jesus christ what an insult to injury
Two thoughts:
1) This is an incredible performance by McConaughey, and one that makes smart use of his existing star text in new, interesting ways; Wooderson gone to seed. Jared Leto is excellent as well.
2) These incredible performances are in a movie that lives into every negative stereotype of Hollywood filmmakers examining a minority issue--in this case the impact of the HIV virus on the gay community in the 1980s, and the FDA's lethargic response to it--from the perspective of a heroic straight white dude. It's not necessarily a bad version of that kind of movie. But it's still that kind of movie.
such an important and interesting film about the HIV/AIDS outbreak in the 80s. also the way matthew transformed into this role... his oscar was so well deserved
McConaughey and Leto worked SOOO well together and definitely deserved their oscar wins
Jared Leto might be annoying as hell in real life, but he acted the hell out of this movie.
This is the most conflicted I’ve been on a film in quite some time. I thoroughly enjoyed Dallas Buyers Club in a narrative sense, and I even agreed with part of what it was trying to say about the greediness of the FDA in refusing to give dying patients the medicine they need to survive, in favor of making a profit. But the casting of Jared Leto in this role of a trans woman just makes me so fucking angry man. I get that Jean-Marc Vallée recently passed away, and I sympathize with his family, but how inconsiderate and bigoted does one man have to be to think that this is okay? And Vallée’s ignorant response to this situation makes everything so…
I really don't know why I didn't watch this sooner. Very good insight into the early discovery of AIDS and the drugs available. Jared Leto in this role was legendary, too good as Rayon. And McConaughey left me speechless. He laughs, cries and exhibits each and every emotion marvelously. Their commitment to these roles made it all very believable. The weight loss is simply just the frosting of their dedication. The acting, direction, make- up is an absolute beauty. Overall this is a brilliant drama that was well deserved of its Oscars.