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LISA LISA
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I have been wanting to get this movie, I have never seen it. I know it's about male prostitution...but that's all I know, and it has the famous scene with Dustin Hoffaman saying "I'm walking here!"....

Has anyone else seen it, and what did you think?

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mamamiasweetpeaches
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Its great...you should buy it...or at least rent it.

I own a VHS and watch it about once a year. It never fails to make me cry!

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Do you mean male prostitution like gigolo, or is it more like with women and men?

StevenHW
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Originally posted by ISIS:
I have been wanting to get this movie, I have never seen it. I know it's about male prostitution...but that's all I know, and it has the famous scene with Dustin Hoffaman saying "I'm walking here!"....

Has anyone else seen it, and what did you think?

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The Academy Award winner for "Best Picture" of 1969.

It's really about two lonely guys, one a Texan named Joe Buck (played by a then-unknown Jon Voight), who travels to New York in the hopes he could be a paid gigolo/male prostitute servicing to rich upscale N.Y. society women. But he has difficulty finding such people, and winds up meeting lonely gay guys instead. Along the way, Joe meets a streetwise bum with tuberculosis named Ratzo Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) and the two spend an entire freezing New York winter, when they should be out getting jobs. They both envision getting out of New York and enjoy the easy life of Miami. Well, I won't spoil the rest for you there. But it is not a happy movie!

I have it on DVD, but haven't had time to see the whole way through. I've seen it on network TV back in the late 70's, though.

When this movie first came out, it was originally rated "X", but the MPAA rating system was a lot different than it is today. A few years later, it was reclassified to an "R".

If you read the novel "Of Mice And Men", think of it as having an urban setting, and then you get the idea.

Some parts of the movie is a bit outdated, but I cannot imagine a major studio making a movie like this today.

From what I remember of it, this is worth seeing.
Just not with your son, though! [Eek!]

Chris the CandyFanMan
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A side note: it was indeed from here that Rizzo the rat got his name a decade later.

mamamiasweetpeaches
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ALSO of note.....the look of the charactor "Lenny" on THE SIMPSONS is supposedly based on Ratzo Rizzo (although a lot of fans see more of a resemblence with Moe The Bartender)

I remember watching this movie on TV as a kid and really liking it...and then I read one of those Leonard Maltin movie books when I was older and he said something along the lines of "Don't bother watching this movie on TV....it's edited to pieces " (which I guess it'd HAVE to be - after all, it's rated X!)

I watched this movie with my MOM awhile back and there wasn't terrible discomfort going on - so i guess it's a pretty loose X ...especially by todays standards!