DALLAS BUYERS CLUB. Matthew McConaughey is on skinny arse fire in this flick looking like Christian Bale in "The Machinist" but dressed as the cowboy from The Village People. This is fantastic stuff, with McConaughey playing a womanising, beer drinking, coke snorting cowboy suddenly faced with a diagnosis of HIV and 30 days to live. Rather than getting his affairs in order and dying, he comes out fighting, looking for alternative medications to those available at the time. However the main attraction of the film are his relationships with his doctor played by Jennifer Garner and his business partner played by Jared Leto. Leto is a revelation as a cross dressing gay man with a Marc Bolan fixation. Tough and tender in equal measures, this comes highly recommended.
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