Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
Jun 23, 2023 | IMDB 5.8
102 min Watch NowDocumentary
This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.
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