IMDb plot summary: In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. Starring Matthew McConnaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, and Denis O'Hare.
This is more focused than many biopics, but the focus is, for whatever reason, not as centered on the characters themselves as I was hoping and more on the logistics of their business. All that we learn about the characters we learn through those logistics. I kind of wonder what the purpose of this kind of movie is *now*, in 2013, when there have been so many other well-told stories about the AIDS epidemic. Not that you can only tell a story once, obviously, but what made *this* story one that inspired the director and the actors to bring it to life? And I just am not sure. That lack of focus shows itself in the broad strokes with which the non-McConnaughey characters are painted and the intense detail on the logistics of "how does one run a buyers' club in the 1980s?" I don't think it's a bad film, it just doesn't do much of ANYTHING, and I wish it was bolder in basically any sense of the word.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Dallas Buyers Club < Letters from Iwo Jima
Dallas Buyers Club > As Good As It Gets
Dallas Buyers Club < Spinning Into Butter
Dallas Buyers Club > Play Misty for Me
Dallas Buyers Club < Alice in Wonderland (1999)
Dallas Buyers Club > Two for the Money
Dallas Buyers Club > Peter Pan (2003)
Dallas Buyers Club < The Robe
Dallas Buyers Club > Mrs. Doubtfire
Dallas Buyers Club < Shrek Retold
Dallas Buyers Club > Millions
Final spot: #2153 out of 3257, or 34%.
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