Dallas Buyers Club
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Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American
biographical drama film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and written by Craig
Borten and Melisa Wallack. Matthew McConaughey stars as the real-life AIDS
patient Ron Woodroof, who smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas
when he found them effective at improving his symptoms, movie
streaming and distributed them to fellow sufferers by
establishing the "Dallas Buyers Club" while facing opposition from
the Food and Drug Administration. Dallas Buyers Club premiered at the 2013
Toronto International Film Festival and was released theatrically on November
1, 2013; it entered wide release on November 22. The film received acclaim from
critics and won numerous accolades; most recognized the performances of
McConaughey and Jared Leto, movie streaming who respectively earned the
Academy Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor,
making this the first film since Mystic River (2003), and only the fifth movie
to win both awards. The film also won Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 86th
Academy Awards, and received Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best
Editing nominations. As of May 2014, the film grossed over $55 million in box
office revenue against a budget of $5 million.

