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Film · 1989 · Crime drama
Drugstore Cowboy
Directed by Gus Van Sant
1989
★ 4.5 editorial score
William Burroughs turns up as a defrocked priest and somehow that is not the oddest thing here: Van Sant films a crew robbing pharmacies in 1971 Portland with no lecture attached.
“Everything in "Drugstore Cowboy," the new film about a gang of small-time junkie thieves, is steeped in a kind of narcotic hilarity. There's a lag time built into the jokes, a holding period, that's keyed to the reactions of the characters' slowed-down responses. Watching it, you feel witness to a real-life, slow-motion farce -- farce in a world without time.”
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