Dallas Buyers Club

2013 117 min ★ 7.9 Drama, History

Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

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Cast

Matthew McConaughey

Ron Woodroof

Jennifer Garner

Eve

Jared Leto

Rayon

Denis O'Hare

Dr. Sevard

Steve Zahn

Tucker

Michael O'Neill

Richard Barkley

Dallas Roberts

David Wayne

Griffin Dunne

Dr. Vass

Kevin Rankin

T.J.

Donna DuPlantier

Nurse Frazin

Details

Director

Jean-Marc Vallée

Tagline

"Dare to live."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$5,000,000

Revenue

$55,736,588

Production

Truth Entertainment, Voltage Pictures, CE, Evolution Independent, R² Films, Rainmaker Films

Reviews

F

furious_iz

March 20, 2018

★ 8/10

**A powerful film about the will to survive and the coldness of big pharma** Matthew McConaughey gives an amazing performance as Ron Woodroof the homophobic, hard partying electrician/rodeo cowboy who becomes HIV positive due to some poor lifestyle choices. Ostracised by his friends for having what was at the time considered a gay disease he goes on a damaging bender before discovering he has ...

C

CinemaSerf

September 19, 2025

★ 7/10

Hats off to Matthew McConaughey here as he takes method acting to an whole new level. He must have lost nearly half of his body weight as he dons the role of Ron Woodruff. Woodroof is a fairly odious womanising bigot at the height of the AIDS epidemic who carries on his life recklessly assuming that he is in no danger. Well, he is soon disabused of that by a doctor who informs him that a life of c...