Midnight Cowboy
For those who have never seen it and those who have never forgotten it.
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
- Director
- John Schlesinger
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Tension
- Worldwide
- $45M
Who's in it
Cast
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How Midnight Cowboy actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
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Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Midnight Cowboy returned 12.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $4M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $45M
- Release date
- May 25, 1969
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English, Italian
- Country
- United States of America
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