What is Midnight Cowboy / They Might Be Giants about?

Double Feature: MIDNIGHT COWBOY, 1969, MGM Repertory, 113 min. Director John Schlesinger. A shocking, poignant study of being down-and-out in the Big Apple. Jon Voight as hustler Joe Buck and Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo give touchstone performances of the New Hollywood. Winner of three Oscars, including Best Picture. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, 1971, Universal, 98 min. Dir. Anthony Harvey. This charmingly goofy, surprisingly romantic Sherlock Holmes iteration finds the famous duo in modern-day New York, with Holmes (George C. Scott) an obsessive paranoid and a female Watson (Joanne Woodward), a psychiatrist helplessly fascinated by the detective.

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What is Midnight Cowboy / They Might Be Giants about?: Double Feature: MIDNIGHT COWBOY, 1969, MGM Repertory, 113 min. Director John Schlesinger. A shocking, poignant study of being down-and-out in the Big Apple. Jon Voight as hustler Joe Buck and Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo give touchstone performances of the New Hollywood. Winner of three Oscars, including Best Picture.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, 1971, Universal, 98 min. Dir. Anthony Harvey. This charmingly goofy, surprisingly romantic Sherlock Holmes iteration finds the famous duo in modern-day New York, with Holmes (George C. Scott) an obsessive paranoid and a female Watson (Joanne Woodward), a psychiatrist helplessly fascinated by the detective.