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Summary: Van Sant's best movie....
Review: I was fortunate to see this film in its limited original release. Over the years much of it stayed with me, and it has stood up to repeated viewings. Hard to say what had the most impact: To see Matt Dillon turn in one of the best acting performances of that year? To witness one of the first performances of an interesting, talented unknown named Heather Graham? Or maybe the inspired performance of William Burroughs in a key role near the end? All the performances in this movie ring true. Truly one of the major overlooked films of the last 20 years.
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Summary: Dillon is bad to the bone
Review: loved this movie with a fire. Im a huge fan of Matt Dillon's work and he gives probably the best performance of his career and he hasnt topped it yet. he plays a druggy and he has a girlfriend played wonderfully by Kelly Lynch and he has two friends, James LeGros and Heather Graham and he also has a cop on his ass played nicely by James Remar. later a stealing of drugs goes bad and Graham kills herself so Dillon wants to rehabilitate and start over with his life and he checks in and he finds out one of his former teachers is going there. Max Perlich also stars as a dimwitted drug dealer. powerful anf funny. the bet scene is where that guy comes out of his house and shoots the cop on the ladder
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Summary: This was a very dramatic story of the world of drugs
Review: Matt Dillon portayes this drug attict in a way only he can. Amazing and fun to watch, the movie makes you cry, laugh, and have hope for new beginnings.
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Summary: compelling
Review: No other film so accurately portrays drug addicts and the extent they go to to feed their addictions. Filled with raw, brilliant performances, it is a movie you are not soon to forget
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Summary: The Torture In Drugstore Cowboy
Review: One cannot escape the torture or agony put forth in this excellent movie about a group of druggies who live together and roam from pharmacies to pharmacies, stealing drugs to ease there addiction. Drugstore Cowboy takes place in the early '70s when drug use was at an all time high, and this video couldn't protary it better. Matt Dillon plays the ring leader of the group, planning elaborate schemes to distract checkout clerks and pharmacists from the treasured--and locked--narcotics drawers behind the prescription counter. This video has some comic relief, but for the marjority of the film, it's focusing on the suffering and addiction of drugs. Even to the point where Matt Dillon's own mom won't even let him into his house because she's afraid he'll steal something to pond for dope [The most powerful scene in the movie] This movie's acting is excellent, as well as the directing, and I would recommend this to anyone.
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Summary: Excellent DVD selection
Review: One of my favorite new additions....an seminal work framed in a beautiful, haunting city. The commentary by Van Sant is spiced with behind-the scenes stories colored in by Matt Dillon. For those familiar with Portland, OR - local references abound. The transfer is great and well worth the conversion from VHS. An added bonus is the featurette that follows the production. By far, one of the best and most informative documentaries about a film that I've seen on DVD.
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Summary: Druggy life doesn't pay but this movie is good good good
Review: Powerful movie about drugs that seem low budgeted but so what. It's still worth watching. Matt Dillon performance is outstanding. Maybe these are the type of roles he is good at...tough guy attitude, just like the classic 'my bodyguard' movie. I enjoy this but not a movie i want to see again since it doesn't have a real happy ending. If you have anyone close to you who take drugs, i suggest watching this movie.
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Summary: As dark as comedy can come
Review: Remember one thing when watching this film: DRUGSTORE COWBOY is a comedy; the darkest comedy for its time but a comedy nonetheless. It was a breakthrough in so many ways. Obviously, Gus Van Zant got a career going. Independent films were beginning to be taken seriously.But Matt Dillon finally proved that he was more than a chiseled face. His comedic performance here would be his best. "No hats on the bed!" Even though he was wildly funny in THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, he's three times better here. There are moments when I've felt that individual scenes are better than the whole. I love William Burrough's scenes as a junkie priest. In one scene, after one of Dillon's friends o.d.s in a motel, Dillon goes to unbelieveable lengths to hide the body in a crawlspace. Once he's completed this gruesome task, he realizes that the motel complex is surrounded by State Troopers--for a convention! The look on Matt Dillon's face is priceless. Please take a look at this dark and funny film. Forget about some of the poorer qualities of the DVD (although they are annoying). DRUGSTORE COWBOY is worth the viewing.
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Summary: Best film Of 1989
Review: sying that this film is the best of it's year is quite a compliment since 1989 was perhaps the last truly great year in American cinema,or at least interesting(sex lies videotpe, mystery train,do the right thing,hell even Batman the highest grossing film of that year was pretty interesting.)This film is melancholy personified, the swishy swashy rythm of the film puts you inside the head of a junky so much to the point that something like watching dead leaves float about in a rain puddle becomes a grand opera. the beauty of the film, shot in a sort of bluish hazed style defies you to take a moral position on the character's lifestyle. But in the end like the character bob, we realize that the vices in drugs are not a moral one but rather a philisophical one that it is more noble to face the problems and mundanities that life has to offer rather than to try to escape them through means such as religion or even drugs.
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Summary: Independent Film making at its Finest
Review: The best aspect of Drugstore Cowboy is that any sententious moralizing about getting high is kept to a minimum while the audience is left to make up its own mind regarding the pros and cons of tuning in, turning on, and dropping out. Set in Portland during the early 70s; Van Sant has put together one of the finest independent films ever. Excellent quips such as Dillon's character referring to a young junky as a "TV Baby" make for a meaningful and scintillating script. It's also a humorous movie with certain scenes retaining an understated comic appeal. While the sets give a fantastic portrait of 1970s west coast junkie life. The always intriguing late William Burroughs makes an appearance in the last quarter of the picture as Father Murphy, a well known old school addict who also happens to be a man of the cloth. The dialogue between him and Dillon's character is the high point of the movie; writing just doesn't come much better than this. Drugstore Cowboy is simply brilliant all the way around and stands as an example of what American film making can achieve if the giant studios are kept from meddling in the artistic process. It should be remembered that Burroughs classic book on the dope scene: "Junky", would make for a nice companion to the movie.
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