Hoffman stars as a down-and-out small time con man who meets and befriends Voight, a naive cowboy who comes to New York hoping to make money by selling his services to lonely women.
Publisher:Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, [1998]
General Note: Academy Awards: Best Picture; Best Director, John Schlesinger; Best Screenplay, Waldo SaltEnglish and French language tracks with English, French, and Spanish language subtitles.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.LSC 12.06For private home use only."MGM DVD"--Container.Production notes inserted in container.Special features: original theatrical trailer.Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy.Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.Double-sided: letter-box and pan & scan formats.DVD.Disc label title.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Director of photography, Adam Holender ; production design, John Robert Lloyd ; editor, Hugh A. Robertson ; music, John Barry.
Participant or Performer Note: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Sylvia Miles.
Target Audience Note:
CHV rating: 18A.
MPAA rating: R.
Awards Note:
Academy Awards: Best Picture; Best Director, John Schlesinger; Best Screenplay, Waldo Salt