Dallas Buyers Club

Name: Dallas Buyers Club
Released: 2013-11-1
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Denis O'Hare, Steve Zahn

Dallas Buyers Club

R
1h 56m
2013

92%

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Matthew McConaughey gives the performance of his career in this uplifting and powerful film inspired by true events. Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof (McConaughey) sees his free-wheeling life overturned when he’s diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Determined to survive, Woodroof decides to take matters in his own hands by tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. After finding an unlikely ally in Rayon (Jared Leto), he establishes a hugely successful “buyers’ club” and unites a band of outcasts in a struggle for dignity and acceptance that inspires in ways no one could have imagined. Co-starring Jennifer Garner, Dallas Buyers Club is “deeply moving. A livewire of a movie!” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)

Director:

Jean-Marc Vallee

Producer:

Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter

Writer:

Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack

Cast:

Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Denis O'Hare, Steve Zahn, Michael O'Neill, Dallas Roberts, Griffin Dunne

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

92%

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.

Reviews

Cinegarage

Erick Estrada

... 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]

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.

Vallée’s attempts to transform reality into a verité-styled exposé are degraded into a purely human interest story once McConaughey and Leto have finished showcasing their astounding ability to drop weight and hand themselves over to their characters.

Whatever the role, we see (Matthew McConaughey) expand his horizons and prove that he's a chameleon that can fit in just about anywhere.

A very informative film about a side to the AIDS crisis that we knew very little about before.

September 2, 2021

FULL REVIEW