Midnight Cowboy (1969)
For those who have never seen it and those who have never forgotten it.
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Midnight Cowboy rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb7.8/10· 131K votes
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Metacritic79%
TMDb7.5/10· 2K votesWith 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.8/10 on IMDb and 79/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.
About Midnight Cowboy
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Cast of Midnight Cowboy
Dustin Hoffman
as Ratso
Jon Voight
as Joe Buck
Sylvia Miles
as Cass
John McGiver
as Mr. O'Daniel
Brenda Vaccaro
as Shirley
Barnard Hughes
as Towny
Ruth White
as Sally Buck
Jennifer Salt
as Annie
Gilman Rankin
as Woodsy Niles
- G
Gary Owens
as Little Joe
- T
T. Tom Marlow
as Little Joe
- G
George Eppersen
as Ralph
Midnight Cowboy facts
- Budget
- $3.6M
- Box office
- $44.8M
Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026MethodologyData sources
Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •sixties setting captures anxious contemporary cultural alienation
- •cautionary tale explores dark underbelly of city life
- •character study achieves profound psychological depth and nuance
What the audience disliked
- •bleak cynical tone offers minimal emotional comfort or catharsis
- •dated filmmaking techniques may limit modern audience engagement
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