Given Matthew McConaughey’s recent resurgence over the last few years, it’s high-praise indeed that his performance in fact-based AIDS drama DALLAS BUYERS CLUB is being touted as his finest. It’s a film that has been receiving a lot of critical buzz following festival screenings with McConaughey as Texas electrician Ron Woodroof, who following an AIDS diagnosis in 1986, began to smuggle alternative and illegal treatments into the US in an effort to help people in the same tragic predicament.
Check out this featurette from the film co-starring Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Denis O’Hare and Steve Zahn. It arrives in the US on 1st November and the UK 7th February 2014. Jean-Marc Vallée directs.
In this fact-based drama, Matthew McConaughey portrays real-life Texas electrician Ron Woodroof, an ordinary man who found himself in a life-or-death battle with the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies. In 1985, Ron was blindsided with an HIV diagnosis and given 30 days to live. With medications still restricted in the US and the country still divided over how to combat the virus, Ron procured non-toxic alternative treatments from all over the world through both legal and illegal means. To avoid government sanctions against selling non-approved medicines and supplements, Ron established a “buyers club” for fellow HIV-positive people, giving them access to his supplies.
Craig was our great north east correspondent, proving that it’s so ‘grim up north’ that losing yourself in a world of film is a foregone prerequisite. He has been studying the best (and often worst) of both classic and modern cinema at the University of Life for as long as he can remember. Craig’s favorite films include THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, JFK, GOODFELLAS, SCARFACE, and most of John Carpenter’s early work, particularly THE THING and HALLOWEEN.
