


After his first encounter with Ratso, Joe sees him again and the two begin forming a friendship. Ratso offers to share his living quarters with Joe, which turns out to be located in a condemned building. Neither of the two men has any money or any real prospects for obtaining money. Ratso offers to help Joe find wealthy women to seduce in return for a share of the money. During the course of the story, Ratso develops a cough which progressively worsens due to their poor living conditions. As the mild summer months give way to the bitter cold of winter, Ratso's health deteriorates even quicker.
While Joe had big dreams of making it in New York, Ratso also had dreams. His dream is to make enough money to afford a ticket to Florida, where the climate is always warm and sunny. Joe, on the other hand does have some luck making friends with some women in the upper class. He is a good looking young man who does appeal to some wealthy women looking to have a good time.
The turning point in the story comes almost toward the end of the movie when Joe finally hooks up with a woman who appears to be the ticket he was looking for. While he is out, Ratso suffers a fall because his condition has deteriorated so much he has lost the use of his legs. When Joe finds him, his only request is to get to Florida.
Midnight Cowboy is an Drama movie that was released in 1969 and has a run time of 1 hr 53 min. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.8 and a MetaScore of 79.
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