
A group of drug users in the 1970's help finance their habit by robbing drug stores. Matt Dillon's character is very superstitious and eventually his luck runs out.... (Full plot summary below)
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A group of drug users in the 1970's help finance their habit by robbing drug stores. Matt Dillon's character is very superstitious and eventually his luck runs out.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertDrugstore Cowboy is one of the best films in the long tradition of American outlaw road movies - a tradition that includes "Bonnie and Clyde," "Easy Rider," "Midnight Cowboy" and "Badlands." |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenDrugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant Jr.'s glum, absorbing film about a clan of heroin addicts who travel around the Pacific Northwest Looting pharmacies of their supplies the way Bonnie and Clyde cleaned out banks, gives Matt Dillon the role of his career. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksThere's a lot of humor here, some of it quite black, as the story unfolds in a stark, matter-of-fact style. And it is the many little realistic touches here and there that make the film ring true. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonCertainly one of the best drug movies ever made.... Great performances make this dispassionate study a memorable experience. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrNeither federally admonishing nor irresponsibly romantic, Cowboy stays high without being highhanded. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewThough hardly earth-shakingly original, Van Sant's low-budget movie takes a cool, contemplative and sometimes comic look at American drug-culture. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumAdapted by Van Sant and Daniel Yost from an unpublished autobiographical novel by James Fogle, this 1989 feature has the kind of stylistic conviction that immediately wins one over. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyLyrically shot, this chronicle of a bunch of bumbling petty-criminals who steal pharmaceuticals is a tad too straightforward by Van Sant's standards, but the dialogue is funnt, the mood nonchalant, and Matt Dillon is terrific in the lead. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonVan Sant gives his material shape and an invigorating, syncopated style. It keeps coming at you in surprising, dazzling ways. |
| Wall Street JournalJulie SalamonDrugstore Cowboy improves. Not much, but in provocative ways. |