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Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

  • Documentary

June 23, 2023 (US)

1h 42m

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...

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