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Both the 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray and the dual-layer DVD are front loaded with a promo for Focus Features and trailers for The Best Man Holiday, Rush, About Time, and Closed Circuit. A slipcover matching the artwork of the case's slick fits over top. 'Dallas Buyers Club' arrives on home video in a Blu-ray/DVD/Digital HD combo back, housing the Blu-ray (on the inside right), DVD (inside left), and insert for an iTunes or Ultraviolet copy in a standard Elite keepcase.
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It's a great movie, and one that every serious movie fan will want to have in their collection.
What I didn't expect was for the film to be so engaging, occasionally funny, and downright appealing. I went into 'Dallas Buyers Club' thinking it would be a solid, but 'preachy' film about the AIDS crisis during the late 1980s. His character proves to be Ron's window into caring about people he used to make jokes about, and in the process of making Ron care, Leto's performance makes viewers care too. There's nothing either showy nor stereotypical about his performance, and through the course of the movie we come to sympathize with Rayon just as much as we have with Ron, regardless of any of our own biases or feelings we might have about transgendered people going into the movie. No less stunning is the performance by Jared Leto, who is totally believable as the cross-gendered Rayon.
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Even though his body is failing him, Ron is full of life until his final days, and McConaughey honors the memory of Woodroof with a performance we'll still be talking about years from now. What Ron never looks for, however, is pity – and while this movie may be about a horrible disease with horrible consequences (especially in the 1980s), there's also not that sense of dread and hopelessness we've seen in other AIDS-related films, such as 'Philadelphia'. We see Ron Woodroof go through every phase of grief over his predicament, and McConaughey nails them all – from denial, to rage, to bargaining, to sadness, to ultimate acceptance. The performance by McConaughey in this movie is nothing short of fearless. It's through Rayon that Ron starts to become more sympathetic to other AIDS and HIV sufferers, as well as the homosexual community in general. In the process, he becomes friends and financial partners with Rayon (Jared Leto), a transsexual he first met at the hospital during one of his relapses. However, Ron is still looking to make an income (having been betrayed by his bigoted co-workers who still think AIDS is very much a homosexuals-only disease), so he sets up a 'Dallas Buyers Club', where a $400 monthly membership will give people access to the drugs. Ron makes the decision that not only he, but all AIDS sufferers, should be able to acquire this medication, so he starts smuggling shipments of it from Mexico back into Dallas. After a few months of taking the medication, Ron is much better than he was before. The doctor instead introduces Ron to other drugs (ddC and Peptide T) that – while not approved by the FDA in the United States – will help boost his protein levels and his overall health. AZT also has a ton of unhealthy side effects, which can be deadly to those with an immune system that is already weakened. While AZT can stop the further spread of infected cells, it can also block the spread of healthy cells.
Ron then makes his way across the border to Mexico where he meets up with another doctor (played by Griffin Dunne) who explains to Ron how AZT isn't the answer. When Eve (the female doctor played by Gardner) explains why she can't give him any at this point in the testing, Ron enlists the aid of one of the workers at the hospital – it's strictly a drugs for money exchange, but soon the hospital administration figures out AZT is missing and they start locking the drugs up.
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He also learns of the drug AZT, which is in the trial stages, and becomes obsessed with obtaining it. Not only isn't he homosexual, but the movie has done a job of establishing up until this point that he's a 'hound' when it comes to women, not to mention very anti-gay around his friends – spouting off jokes about Rock Hudson's recent diagnosis (the movie begins in 1985).Īs Ron's symptoms worsen, he begins to dive into research about HIV and AIDS and realizes he most likely acquired the disease through unprotected sex. A work injury results in a hospital visit, where two doctors (played by Jennifer Gardner and Denis O'Hare) give Ron the bad news: he has about 30 days to live. When we first meet Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), he already has AIDS…he just doesn't know it yet.