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Year: 1969 Director: John Schlesinger Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles" Midnight Cowboy - DVD [ 1969 ] - Modern Classic Movies on DVD - Movies on GRUV.

Can these two philosophically opposed FBI agents overcome their differences and uncover the chilling mystery of a small Ku Klux Klan-ridden community before an entire town is torn apart by racism? Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe star in this well-intentioned and largely successful civil rights-era thriller. The movie has an interesting fatalism, as all the FBI's best efforts incite more and more violence, which becomes disturbing--the film's message, perhaps inadvertently, seems to be that vigilantism is the only real way to get things done.

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