Dallas Buyers Club

Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film on DVD, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and starring Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto. Matthew McConaughey stars in Dallas Buyers Club as Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life is overturned in 1985 when he is diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Shunned and ostracized by many of his old friends, and bereft of government-approved medicines, Ron will not accept a death sentence and takes matters into his own hands by tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world through legal and illegal means. He finds an ally in fellow AIDS patient Rayon (Jared Leto) and together they challenge the medical and scientific community, including their concerned physician Dr Eve Saks (Jennifer Garner). Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, Dallas Buyers Club is a unique story of the transformative power of resilience. Awards: Won Oscar Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Matthew McConaughey (Academy Awards, USA 2014) Won Oscar Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Jared Leto (Academy Awards, USA 2014) Won Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Matthew McConaughey (Golden Globes, USA 2014) Won Actor Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Matthew McConaughey (Screen Actors Guild Awards 2014) Won Actor Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Jared Leto (Screen Actors Guild Awards 2014) Won 47 other awards and 30 other nominations Dallas Buyers Club Movie Reviews “The AIDS epidemic was not a happy-ending story. But it was certainly a test of the human spirit. Ron Woodroof passed that test.” Detroit News “Just about everything is right with Dallas Buyers Club, beginning with Matthew McConaughey's li­terally transformative portrayal.” Philadelphia Inquirer “A solid biopic is made transcendent by McConaughey, who shed nearly 50 pounds and deserves to gain an Oscar for his ferocious, funny performance.” Newsday “One of the best films of the year.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch “A straight-up portrait of a man who figured out a way to cling to life longer than anyone expected and, in the process, learned to let the world in.” Miami Herald “Played with raw, rattling fury and grace by Matthew McConaughey, Woodroof is a tarnished protagonist of the first order.” Denver Post “The film manages to educate without ever feeling didactic, and to entertain in the face of what would, to any other character, seem like a grim life sentence.” Variety “This is a bold, drastic and utterly persuasive inhabiting of a doomed fighter by a performer who has graduated from the shirtless rom-com Romeo of the last decade to indie-film actor du jour.” Variety