Rico asks Joe to refer to him as "Rico" instead of "Ratso", but Joe does not oblige. When Rico offers to share his apartment squat in a condemned building, Joe reluctantly accepts, and they begin a "business relationship" as hustlers. The next day, Joe spots Rico and angrily confronts him. Joe threatens him, but releases him unharmed. Joe tries to make money by receiving oral sex from a young man in a movie theater, but the man cannot pay. Soon broke, management locks him out and impounds his belongings. Joe spends his days wandering the city listening to his Zenith portable radio and sitting in his hotel room. After discovering that the alleged pimp is actually an unhinged religious fanatic, Joe flees unsuccessfully in pursuit of Rico. Joe meets Rico "Ratso" Rizzo, a con man with a limp who takes $20 for introducing him to a pimp. She is insulted when he requests payment and he ultimately gives her money, implying she is a high-class prostitute herself. Initially unsuccessful, he finally beds a middle-aged woman, Cass, in her Park Avenue apartment. Young Texan Joe Buck quits his dishwasher job and heads by bus to New York City in cowboy attire to become a male prostitute. In 1994, Midnight Cowboy was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. It has since been placed 36th on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films of all time, and 43rd on its 2007 updated version. Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film ever to win Best Picture. Set in New York City, Midnight Cowboy depicts the unlikely friendship between two hustlers: naïve sex worker Joe Buck (Voight), and ailing con man Rico Rizzo (Hoffman), referred to as "Ratso".Īt the 42nd Academy Awards, the film won three awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, with notable smaller roles being filled by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Salt, and Barnard Hughes. Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film, based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy.
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