Drugstore Cowboy
Director: Gus Van Sant
Genre: Crime Fiction, Indie, Period piece, Road movie, Addiction Drama, Crime Drama, Drama
Year: 1989
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James LeGros, Heather Graham, William S. Burroughs, James Remar, Max Perlich, Grace Zabriskie, Beah Richards, George Catalano, Eric Hull, Tom Peterson, Stephen Rutledge
Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 American crime drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Van Sant and Daniel Yost, based on a autobiographical novel by James Fogle. Matt Dillon stars in the title role, and Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, and William S. Burroughs are also featured. It was Van Sant's breakthrough picture.
The film's score was written by composer Elliot Goldenthal. It was very well received critically, being listed on the Top Ten list of both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert for films released in 1989.
At the time the film was made, the source novel by Fogle was unpublished. It was later published in 1990, by which time Fogle had been released from prison. Fogle, like the characters in his story, was a long-time drug user and dealer.
Drugstore Cowboy was filmed mainly around Portland, Oregon, at the Pearl District, in an area that used to be a railyard, with a viaduct going over it; now the district has turn into full urbanization, with the viaduct taken down and many new condominiums brought to the downgraded places.
The film is based on the autobiographical work of the same title by James Fogle, who has been in trouble with the law many times before and since the film's
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